This issue has persisted since Forza Motorsport 2, but in reality dates back to the first Forza Motorsport on the original Xbox. The Vauxhall Monaro in Forza has an incredibly inaccurate model, despite 6 years of absence from the series between Horizon 1 and Motorsport 7, which should’ve given whichever Studio time to either rescan it, or use the Forza Motorsport 4 Pontiac GTO model as a base.
Everything about the current Monaro model is wrong, and I mean everything. The whole front end is entirely deformed, with the lights being closer to those of the 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix, the front bumper having completely wrong proportions of everything, and the bonnet having wrongly positioned intakes. The entire car is too wide, but the sides themselves lack shape, especially the doors. Side windows are placed at an incorrect angle, making the roof too narrow, somehow, yet the windshield appears too wide. The rear end is also out of proportion, with the lights being too small and incorrectly shaped, while the rear bumper is too big and the exhausts are too small. All wheel arches are very asymmetrical. Even the stock wheels aren’t accurate, with the set on the front axle being unnecessarily concave like the rear axle.
The most infuriating part of this is the fact that you literally had an accurate model to import to whichever game you desire instead of this abomination, in the form of the Pontiac GTO from Forza Motorsport 4, where it had an actually accurate model, unlike the Motorsport 1 GTO model which the Monaro is based on. The difference is literal worlds.
Please do not make this mistake for any future title. Do not recycle clearly outdated Xbox 360 assets into Horizon 6.
As it really turns out, It was never remodeled when it returns to FH4… (and in FM7 as a leaked thumbnail)
That is outrageous, the 2006 GTO will be a good return with a simple retexture to the new Forzas even if its model looks decent for an X360 era game like FM4 only.
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I don’t think the 2006 GTO’s model would look good in the Series X|S era, the textures might’ve looked good in the 360 era but it would out-of-date in this current era
It would look about as decent as the 2012 Aventador or the 2011 R35 Black does, which is not really good. It would be a MASSIVE improvement over this FM2 (FM1) model though
Ideally, both the Monaro and GTO should be heavily remodelled
I think both the Monaro and the GTO should have a remodel if the Monaro is to carry over into FH6 and if the GTO returns after a long hiatus from FM4
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If a remodel for the Monaro is going to happen, most likely it’ll be the Vauxhall since we’ve had it in the series for years and finding a Holden version that hasn’t been imported from Australia would be difficult to do, it wouldn’t be impossible but not many Holden versions of the Monaro made it out of its home continent
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They’d have a way to get to some Australian cars.
A lot of the Australian cars in-game didn’t get a re-badged variant overseas.
The Monaro was the main one, outside of that a few Commodore models went to the Middle East, but otherwise most of the overseas cars are imports.
The HSV GTS-R from 1996 especially, very few of those were made.
It’s not like they don’t have a model for this one already.
As for others, they can either use the in-house modeling team, or they can outsource the work to 3rd parties as they’ve been allegedly doing in the past.
I hope the Monaro is part of the list of cars that need major remodelling, very likely it’ll be the Vauxhall version since not many Holden ones are outside of Australia and New Zealand
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I’d say it’s the other way around, it’s even more likely that they’ll bring in the Holden since Australia is much closer to Japan than the UK. And also the GTO may return since some people are particularly fond of USDM spec cars in Japan.
I’m not sure because finding a Holden Monaro outside of Australia is massively difficult and flying over takes a long time to go and scan one
As if they had never been there…
FH3 was great but also a massive missed opportunity for adding so many seemingly boring cars that people would enjoy.
I still finding a Holden version is still very complicated and very time consuming when they’ve got 100s of cars to remodel and don’t have the time to try and outsource a Holden when they’re rare outside of Australia and New Zealand
There’s a higher chance of them a Vauxhall version compared to the Holden
