(Note: This post was heavily edited for the sake of readability and structure)
I’m only asking since I’m sure somebody made a list already. Specifically, which cars which fulfill the following
Not in the autoshow for purchase
Not available via backstage pass
Not obtainable via in-game progression i.e. stories or Star Cards
Not available via wheelspin
Not unlockable through skill trees
Do not appear in the Forzathon Shop or as a Playlist reward during the repeating cycle of series (56 thru 64 , repeating as 65-73 etc)
To be fair, the absolute majority of cars remain available, (nearly 98 percent) which is neat. and I am grateful that Backstage pass was added in the endgame for us late adopters. I just want to know what cars cannot be obtained anymore so I don’t waste time in the auction House trying to get them. Thanks again!
Edit: I did some research and here’s what I came up with. This assumes you first began the game on December 15th 2022 or after (when series 56 debuted). Thanks to @TopGearDanTGD for documenting the playlist rewards and Forzathon Shop items of each season on Reddit using a clear visual format.
Note that the four preorder cars listed here are completely unobtainable since after series 20, an update made them blacklisted from the auction house. The other fourteen are theoretically available in the auction house still if you’re able to network with somebody generous.
Aston Martin DB11 Preorder
ATS GT
Cadillac Escalade ESV Chevy Camaro ZL1 Preorder
FIAT Dino 2.4 Coupe Ford Focus RS Preorder
Formula Drift #777 Chevrolet Corvette
HSV GTSR
Mazda RX-7 GSL-SE (“Mazda RX-7 '85”) McLaren 720S Coupe Preorder
Napier-Railton
Porsche 356 RSR from Emory Motorsport
Quartz Regalia
Quartz Regalia Type-D
Renault Clio RS 197 (“Renault Clio”)
Renault Sport Clio V6 (“Renault Clio '03”)
Rossion Q1
Toyota Corolla SR5 (“Toyota Corolla”)
Please correct me if I have made any errors.
EDIT: The delisting announcement has made this thread moot since ostensibly the missing cars will all be added to backstage pass.
There are four preorder cars that are unobtainable in any sense, since they’re (supposedly) not able to be sold on the Auction House, and they only appeared in one or two playlists a few years ago:
Aston Martin DB11
Chevy Camaro ZL1
Ford Focus RS
McLaren 720S Coupe
There are three other preorder cars that are obtainable: the Mercedes-AMG GT R and Nissan GT-R were gifted to all players, and then the Porsche 911 GT3 RS is a reward for getting the Horizon Life entry for the Eliminator up to level 20.
As far as normal cars go, the only one that I know for a fact hasn’t appeared in the past three years is the Napier-Railton, though I lucked into one on the Auction House. I know I got the '74 Celica and the Escalade as playlist rewards at some point, but I can’t speak as to whether that was before or after the current Groundhog Day purgatory we find ourselves in. I feel like I’ve seen the Celica show up again, but the Escalade might be from beforehand.
I really wanted that Celica for the b class dirt event. Instead I built a monster g86 tune, but I would of loved to of had that one. I didn’t start playing till about 2021…and didn’t really get into it till 2022. Since then…regret not getting these from the auction house. I hate not finishing a collection…I think everyone is like that. Knowing their are a few we can’t get really burns.
Both Quartz are auction house only now, and I don’t think the 65 GTO is in the rotation. It also seems like one or two of the early Porsches are also now not in the rotation.
There really is no need for things to be this way. It would cost PGG essentially nothing to add those old exclusive cars into Backstage, or put them into the Wheelspin list, or anything really. And I just don’t understand why they settled on repeating the same 10 series ad nauseam, when they could queue up any of the past ones and give everyone the chance to earn all of the rewards again.
I’ve got a spare Napier, and pretty sure a spare '74 Celica that I can put up in the Auction House later, if we can coordinate a time and hopefully you can grab them.
(I’m UK, and will be watching the footy - 'mon the Scots! - so it’ll be between 6pm-8pm, or after 10pm our time)
It is ridiculous that there are unobtainables, still - surely it cannot be that difficult to make every car available in the Showroom, or for PO cars, put them in the shop on a rotating basis for 99 points? Can’t believe anyone would begrudge them being available to all, now the game is almost 6 years old,
That will be awesome. I think I am not doing this weeks FH4 playlist…really burned on the repeats. For the celica though…I will play!! Thank you for pointing that out.
That was a pain. I didn’t start playing forza till 2022…took me a year to get a drift adventure!! Once I did finish though…I felt accomplished lol. I wish more people still did those online ranked events.
Yeah, ranked drift was a royal pain. And for the painter/tuner ones, I wound up repeatedly sharing/unsharing a design/tune, because doing that gives you a bit of experience each time. Luckily my Logitech keyboard software let me set it up as a one-press macro, but it was still a slog.
