Does anybody feels the same D and C classes finally drive pretty good? No crazy grip, nice suspension work and everything is right. So good to play. I even don’t need faster cars to enjoy this game.
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I’ve always liked them. But I’d say this is the best they’ve felt in the Horizon series.
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I think high grip made them a bit boring. Currently even A is too fast for me. Slower classes feel much more real than the faster ones to me. Really awesome to try some slower cars. I love Forzavista, it’s so cool. I know, we have it for years but still, no other game has it. Amount of work invested in the game must be huge.
I made my Vocho D500 stock look (I have the other Vochos for crazy stuff). Drives well on stock white wall tires.
I like D and C… probably bc racing S1 is typically a stretch for my skills and S2 is only for free roam… I enjoy driving and tuning some of the oddball cars.
As I’ve said before, I’ve always liked racing in the lower classes in FH4, D and C and then up to about A800, and I kind of specialize in the classics - classic sports cars, rare classics, classic racers, even the vintage racers. The competition can be as fierce as in the faster classes, and you have more opportunity to focus on the refinements of driving skill and learning the courses in detail.
But here I am now in FH5, and none of my old favorites are here (yet, I suppose). All I have at the moment by way of a sports car in D is the Lotus Elan Sprint, which I never actually raced in FH4. So I chassis-tuned the heck out of it and bumped it to D500, and I’ve been having a great time with it. With the slipperier friction model it’s a little loose but with otherwise neutral handling characteristics it’s been a lot of fun so far and a winner in the lower difficulties that we’ve all been demoted to. I’m playing at highly-skilled now, where it was pro and unbeatable in FH4, but that’s OK. I’ve got to admit that cruising to a win against the unbeatables (or, as I called them, the unbearables) just felt wrong somehow.
So I’m hoping that my old faves will reappear sooner or later, but in the meantime I’m set for D-class road racing and will get along just fine for now with a couple modern sports cars in higher classes until I see some of the classics showing up.
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ive always liked slower car classes.
i can take in the scenery better rather than unblinkingly fix my gaze on the road as i go 200mph for 3 seconds before the next turn.
Slow racing, fun racing.
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They feel exactly the same to me than in FH4 lol. This guy… 
class C and D were my most used cars then, and they behave the same in FH5. They handle better and they seem to have more grip in hard conditions because they are not too fast, that is something that improved in FH5. But overall, exactly the same.
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I always used to Drive S1, and S2 class in FH4, but now I drive mostly A Class. A Class feels like S1 class. S2 Class feels like Ferrari Evo.
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Glad I’m not alone rockin the lower class cars… but between D, C, and B I’d still go with B especially for rally.
@Strider5823, I’m with you on B-class rally. My Subaru Impreza 22B-STI at B700 rocks.
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I drove a 22B in FH4 a lot, B700. I don’t have one in FH5 yet. The Mitsubishi Lancer 6 GSR at B700 in FH5 is a really nice handling rally car, that’s what I’m using in the meantime. Lots of fun!
@ziperrPL, we’re on the same wavelength. Back in FH4, racing Greenwood Club Circuit with its good rhythm and a well-tuned D100 sports car like the MG TA was like slow-motion ballet.
D class and C class were always my favorites, all the way back to Forza Motorsport 4. I prefer them because you generally have to choose power or handling, and the cars retain some of their unique characteristics from stock. Most cars in horizon cannot have upgraded tires installed and stay in D class, let alone C class which means the focus has to be on tuning and getting the power to the ground. Plus there tend to be more courteous drivers in the lower classes. The shine of S1 and V12 AWD everything tends to pull the worst behaviors away and leave players who are really interested in tight competition.
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Remember some cars now get a “Vintage White Wall” compound (this is actually something I wanted), which is a tier below Street tires, but above the horrible bias plys some of the old muscle cars and prewar cars come with. It can be an option for B class and below, since Vintage Racing tires have gone up in PI.
Street tires might have become useful in C class with the overall increase in PI ceilings. But I haven’t tested it. Too busy drifting my S1 monsters.
I feel B is pretty well balanced, this weeks cross country seasonal championships in B were pretty fun.
Me I like to run some low-class races for a while to get used to the game & memorize the layouts. Ran a 3-hour race
on the Goliath-layout in my D-tuned 1965 Mini. Hard work against the allmost unbeatables and allmost no payout but
I memorized the track quite good.
close to perfect 1965 Mini D-racer: 851 297 335
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I’m loving s1 road/street. It’s so balanced ATM where you can be competitive in a huge range of different cars.
In FH4, I even raced some of the older classic sports cars with stock engines without bumping them to the top of their brackets. As someone who in my early years actually owned and drove a 1956 Austin-Healey 100-4, when I race the game’s Austin-Healey 3000 I want to race it just the way Mr. Austin and Mr. Healey rolled it out of the factory.
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