FH3 November Alpinestars Car Pack

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The Alpinestars Car Pack, due to arrive with the Nov. 1 title update, will include seven vehicles which are not yet specified. Instead, the Turn 10 Community Team has begun feeding the customary list of clues for those who wish to rack their brains before the turn of the month:

  • Vehicle 1: Halloween is such a kooky time of year! I love the festive nature of this holiday.
  • Vehicle 2: It may be crazy to hear this but, what comes around goes around.
  • Vehicle 3: You never know until you try! The result might make for generations of cherished rivalries and competition.
  • Vehicle 4: If lives were gears this cat would be hitting 60 in less time than it takes to read this clue aloud.
  • Vehicle 5: It takes class to inspire this kind of driving. Well, that and one helluva big wing!
  • Vehicle 6: Street legal yes. Daily driver, probably not.
  • Vehicle 7: Sometimes winning makes for strange bedfellows.

Make your guesses!

Vehicle 4 IMO sounds like a Chaparral :)
 
Vehicle 3 to me is a Lancer Evolution I

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Vehicle 5 might be an M4 GTS

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Vehicle 6: Toyota GT-One Road Car?

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3. 1985 Holden VK Group A SS Commodore
4. 2016 Jaguar XE-S
6. 2015 Radical SR8

As for barn find:
Honda S800
1971 Plymouth GTX426 Hemi
1990 Renault Alpine GTA Le Mans
1971 Jensen Interceptor
 
Vehicle 1: Halloween is such a kooky time of year! I love the festive nature of this holiday.
I'm guessing "kooky" refers to Edd "Kookie" Burns, a popular actor in the 1950s/1960s who starred in 77 Sunset Strip and drove one of most famous hotrods ever, the Norm Grabowski-built "Kookie Kar", a Ford T-bucket with a Chevy small block engine. The Boneshaker in FM6 is also a T-bucket, and it has that huge skull grill which certainly fits in with Halloween, so I'm thinking it's the Boneshaker.
 
A Lancer Evolution would be nice, but hardly essential. I'd rather we got the Evo IV and V parts back for the VI.
 
I don't think they'll re-hash previous DLC cars like the Boneshaker, that didn't work so well for FH1 and FM5...
 
Vehicle 2: Fisker Karma. Its name solves the riddle and it's 'crazy to hear' with that weird noise it plays through its speakers. crazy could also be meant as in difficult to hear, as the motor itself is electric after all.

Vehicle 4: NSX. It's a cat, so if lives were gears it would have 9. Could also be a Golf, but its 0-60 most certainly couldn't.

My mate cracked both of those. Credit to him, I was completely clueless. They are the only two I'm confident of.
 
I'd love to see the new NSX!

As for Car 1, many people on the Forza forums are guessing the Ecto 1 or DMC DeLorean.
 
I really hope clue 7 is the 1985 HDT Magnum. It was a combination of the winning HDT racing team knowhow, and the luxurious but slow Holden WB Statesman. Quite odd bedmates. But with the blueprinted Holden V8, it made over 250 horsepower. And could easily hang with an HDT Commodore around Bathurst. It was about 4 seconds a lap slower than an HDT VK Commodore in 1985, and lap for lap equal to a regular VK SS. Not too bad for a car designed for your granddad.
It'd also be the first time the car has ever been in a video game. And far more interesting proposition than the VK SS Group A everyone seems to be begging for. Especially because the VL Group A we already have is simply an improved evolution of it.
 
1. I'm going to guess is either the Kooky T-Bucket that people mentioned or the Kouki Nissan Silvia.

2. Judging by how that's worded, I'm guessing the Fisker Karma.

3. This could be a lot of cars, maybe Turn 10 adding the 1966 Mustang GT Coupe from FM6 as the original Mustang did motivated Chevy to make a rival to it. Heck, it could be the 1967 Camaro SS or Z/28. I hope for the Z/28 of course as the SS would be censored. The next idea I guess would be the first Lancer Evolution or maybe another aussie car as I have no clue what started the Aussie car rivalry between Ford and Holden still.

4. It's a Jaguar no doubt. It could be the CX75 Concept, the new XE-S that was leaked a while ago, or something else. Wait, the clue says "9 lives were gears". Uh, what cars have a 9-Speed transmission?

5. A big wing eh? Um, maybe it's the Plymouth Superbird? That has a really big wing, though I guess it would be redundant since the Charger Daytona is already in FH3. Then my next guess is some Time Attack car or hill climb car, those are big winged machines.

6. This tells me it's a track car or a homologation car. Dodge Viper ACR? Lamborghini Diablo GTR? Toyota GT-ONE Road Car? Mclaren P1 GTR? Mclaren F1 LM?

7. I got nothing.
 
My guesses:

1.) 1998 Nissan Silvia S14 Kouki (see ""kooky")
2.) 2012 Fisker Karma (both the name and the comeback of Fisker)
3.) 1964 Lamborghini 350GT or Ford GT40 Mk1 (competition with Ferrari)
4.) 2016 Honda/Acura NSX (9 gears, 0-60 in under 3 seconds)
5.) A Pikes Peak Hillclimb car (Escudo, 405 T16, SX4, 208, Quattro, 205 T16)
6.) 2015 Radical RXC Turbo
7.) 1990 Renault-Alpine GTA Le Mans
 
I hope and pray clue one isn't a late-type Silvia S14. An FC RX-7 Infini 4 or a JZA70 Supra Turbo R would be a far better inclusion than a facelifted version of a car we already just got for free.
I swear, Forza drifters are some of the most entitled kids on the planet. Kick and scream for an S14 for 3 years, and when you get it for free, you continue to whinge how it 'isn't the right one'. It's not like they gave us the American 240SX, so stop complaining.
 
And...

The ZF nine-speed is currently installed in the Cherokee, as well as the Jeep Renegade, Chrysler 200, Ram ProMaster City, Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, Land Rover Discovery, Acura TLX, and Acura MDX—and it's on the way for several more vehicles within the next model year.
 
And...

The ZF nine-speed is currently installed in the Cherokee, as well as the Jeep Renegade, Chrysler 200, Ram ProMaster City, Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, Land Rover Discovery, Acura TLX, and Acura MDX—and it's on the way for several more vehicles within the next model year.

None of these are all that fast though, which is why I'm fairly sure Clue 4 is the NSX.
 
Vehicle 1: many people are guessing it may either be the Boneshaker making a return from FM6, or a Cadillac Miller-Meteor endloader (aka Ecto-1). But the former seems highly unlikely to me - putting a car in a DLC twice is something that's been met with harsh criticism when it's been done in the past, and T10/PG seems hell-bent on not committing the mistakes of the FM5 era again. My best non-bandwagon guess is that it could be a 1973 Oldsmobile 88 like the one featured in the Evil Dead trilogy. But it's a crapshoot, really.

Vehicle 2: that's a really obscure guess. Many people are saying it could either be the Fisker Karma or the DeLorean DMC-12 (which is set to make a return this year). But again, I'll say it's the DAF Daffodil - famous for its ability to go in reverse just as fast as it can go forward - just because I want to be a special snowflake.

Vehicle 3: you never know if you can make cars better than Ferrari until you try stepping up from making tractors and diesel burners. The Lamborghini 350GT was a bit of a crapshoot for Ferruccio Lamborghini, but it would be quite successful, and eventually ignite a rivalry unlike any other in the world of high-performance luxury cars.
It must be said, tho... As much as I love my Italian V12 GTs, the idea of a Ford GT40 Mk. I would be quite enticing.

Vehicle 4: what has 9-speed CVT and goes from 0 to 100 very fast? A brand-new Acura NSX, of course. It's a highly-requested (and long overdue) ride, and the task of adding all the newest supercars to the series car roster's been falling quite often on Playground Games as of lately...

Vehicle 5: the word "class" associated to sensational driver brings to mind the award-winning Climb Dance short film, which portrayed Ari Vanaten's record run in the 1988 Pikes Peak in the huge-winged Peugeot 405 T16. It would also be the first Pikes Peak car in the history of the Horizon series (although the Suzuki Escudo and SX4 Monster Sport already featured in the mainstay Motorsport series)!

Vehicle 6: this has to be the Radical RXC Turbo which was previously leaked. It's the first Radical to come street-legal from the factory and it has all the elements of a terrible daily driver: no storage space, cramped interior, far too many horses gallopping under the hood for it to be even remotedly practical in the city traffic...

Vehicle 7: hm. Would the Peugeot-owned Talbot brand and Lotus be strange bedfellows? Well, their collaboration was surely successful, seeing as the Talbot Sunbeam Lotus won the 1981 World Rally Championship for Constructors, competing against monsters such as the Lancia Stratos and Ford Escort mk2 RS no less!
 
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Hope clue 4 is the Honda rather than Acura NSX. Don't know why people want an American spec one with wrong-hand-drive, especially for a game set in Oz.
 
Hope clue 4 is the Honda rather than Acura NSX. Don't know why people want an American spec one with wrong-hand-drive, especially for a game set in Oz.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I'd love to get the Japanese-spec Honda... But I think we all know Turn10 prefers their cars to be USDM-spec.

Although now that I think of it, one of the most likely reason for this bias - the difficulty in sourcing a Japanese-spec car in most cases - may be not a factor here: it wouldn't be too hard for Microsoft to source a right-hand drive NSX with the proper badging, since they're all built at the new Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio (even those for the Japanese market!).
 
Oh, don't get me wrong. I'd love to get the Japanese-spec Honda... But I think we all know Turn10 prefers their cars to be USDM-spec.

Although now that I think of it, one of the most likely reason for this bias - the difficulty in sourcing a Japanese-spec car in most cases - may be not a factor here: it wouldn't be too hard for Microsoft to source a right-hand drive NSX with the proper badging, since they're all built at the new Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio (even those for the Japanese market!).
It really isn't that hard to replicate, especially for the new NSX. They don't usually laser scan the cars, they just measure and record the audio. Otherwise they just work off hundreds of pictures and notes. And the NSX isn't like many JDM v USDM cars, the Japanese market is exactly the same save for badges and seating position. All it would take is mirroring over the interior, and making sure the writing and pictures aren't reversed.

For something like a 180SX vs a 240SX, the same concepts apply but also applying the engine performance an audio of the SR20DET to it. Which is already done when you perform the swap yourself in-game.
 
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