Forza Horizon 5 Season Change: Post Modern

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“Modern Horizons” moves into its final week this week, as Forza Horizon 5 brings the celebration of contemporary cars to its close.

Series 35 bears that name as it marks a month-long focus on cars from 2010 and on. Most of the challenges across the four weeks require, or reward you with, era-appropriate vehicles.

That includes the special, Playlist-exclusive rewards which, as usual, drop into your garage for completing 20pt of challenges within each season and (or) 80pts across the full set. Naturally there’s a lot of electric motion involved in this quintet.

A new DLC pack which really was more appropriate to last month’s Horizon Retrowave is also available. It features five — ish — new cars all from Universal’s raft of 1980s and 1990s shows and movies.

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Series 35: Modern Horizons

EVs are the theme for the overall Series rewards, but their performance isn’t in question.

For 80 points you’ll pick up the Kia EV6 GT, a madcap twin-motor machine that Kia envisages as its successor to the 3.3-liter turbo V6 Stinger. It’s hard to tell apart from the regular EV6, but the revisions underneath are so wide-ranging it’s an entirely different car. The 600hp it puts to the floor also helps.

A little more on the vaporware side of things is the RAESR Tachyon Speed, awarded at 160pt. This wild concept hypercar packs in six — yes, that’s six — electric motors for a combined 1,250hp and a theoretical top speed of 240mph.

Series 35 Spring/Hot Season Rewards

The last new car of the series, available for 20pt, is not exactly all that new. It’s Porsche’s Taycan Cross Turismo and yes, it’s pretty much the same car under the new body as the Taycan that’s already in the game.

Not that this is a bad thing necessarily. The wagon body adds a little heft, but not too much to blunt the 750hp power output — and handily takes the car’s PI down to the exact top of the A Class at 800.

For 40pt there’s another chance to pick up the verbosely named rallycross Fiesta. This 600hp beast carries barely any weight and has all-wheel drive and plenty of suspension travel for dealing with the rigors of GRC. It’s ideally suited for the off-road areas of FH5 then.

Spring will run until 1430UTC on Thursday July 18, bringing Series 35 to a close along with it. Summer of Series 36 will follow on, and we’re expecting to learn more about that this coming Monday.

Series 35 Spring Playlist: Forzathon Events

One of the world’s newest manufacturers is the appropriate subject for the final Forzathon Weekly Challenge this month, so grab an example of the Lynk&Co 03+ to get Do The Unexpected underway.

Upgrade the front-wheel drive sports sedan first, spending 60,000cr or more on tuning parts. After that, use its new-found performance to win any one Street Race event.

Finally, and you may like to leave this until July 14 to double-dip it, take a photograph of the Lynk to score your five Playlist points and 80 Forzathon Points.

Series 35 Spring Forzathon Weekly Challenge: Do The Unexpected

  • Car: Lynk&Co 03+ ’21
    • Chapter 1: Own and drive the Lynk&Co 03+
    • Chapter 2: Spend 60,000cr on upgrades for the Lynk&Co 03+
    • Chapter 3: Win a Street Race event in the Lynk&Co 03+
    • Chapter 4: Take a photo of the Lynk&Co 03+
  • Reward: 5 points, 80FP

The final seven Daily Challenges pop up at their usual one-a-day rate. There’s a new challenge each day at 1430UTC, with seven days to complete each one for one point each time. That technically means that the later ones can run into next Series, but we’ve never been brave enough to try that out…

Modern Monsters requires you to grab any Rally Monster from the 2010s decade and earn a combo Crash Landing Skill. That’s an Air Skill for a successful leap followed by a Wreckage Skill for smashing a destructible object — easy to achieve anywhere the terrain is bumpy and features smashables.

Earn five stars at any Drift Zones next — maybe the two PR Stunts on the main map and in Hot Wheels will suffice — to get Drifting to Stardom.

It’s Ferrari Fashion next, as you take any Ferrari from the 2010s decade to the paint booth for a new body color.

Take a photo of your car in Playa Azul — perhaps the Lynk from the Weekly Challenge above — to grab a Holiday Snapshot.

You’ll be Keeping Up With the Times next by simply driving any 2010s vehicle, and chances are this will complete as part of your other activities this week.

Be an Art Appreciator after that, as you visit Star27’s Mural in Mulege, just north of the central plaza.

Finally earn three Air Skills in any Dirt Race (for which the Audi Feel About This? Seasonal would be a natural fit) to prove you can be a Mudslinger.

Series 35 Spring Daily Challenges

  • July 11 – Modern Monsters: Earn a Crash Landing Skill in any 2010s Rally Monster
  • July 12 – Drifting to Stardom: Earn five Stars at any Drift Zones
  • July 13 – Ferrari Fashion: Paint the body of any 2010s Ferrari
  • July 14 – Holiday Snapshot: Take a photo of your car in Playa Azul
  • July 15 – Keeping Up With The Times: Drive any 2010s vehicle
  • July 16 – Art Appreciator: Visit Star27’s Mural in Mulege
  • July 17 – Mudslinger: Earn three Air Skills in any Dirt Race

Series 35 Spring Playlist: Season Events

Two very similar Multiplayer events await this week, requiring either an Xbox Core subscription (or another subscription which includes it) or a PC — on which it’s free — in order to take part.

The Trial, Extreme Road Trip, sits in its permanent spot of course. This week that’s a series for A Class (701-800PI) Extreme E cars, for a tricky Cross Country Racing event.

As always it’s a best-of-three race challenge, with you and up to five other human players against a squad of six “Unbeatable” AI. The aim is for your team to outscore the AI’s, putting any individual glory firmly in a teamwork box.

Players on each team score 100pt for each opponent from the rival team that they beat, but there’s no points for beating a team-mate (aside from a 50pt bonus, as a tiebreaker, to the team with the winning driver). The goal then is to help your team-mates finish as high possible at the AI’s expense and not to hinder your temporary colleagues.

The balance of the cars makes life very awkward this week, so you’re going to need a more switched-on team than usual. Nevertheless, a squad with three decent drivers should do the business, for 10pt and a TVR Griffith to all players.

Alongside that this week, and worth its current, massive 8pt, is Horizon Tour. The general thrust is the same as The Trial, except car choice is dictated by the current event hopper, you’ll need to race all three races, and — while not significant — you also need to drive from the end of one race to the start of the next.

Beating the “Highly Skilled” AI field for this event ought to be a breeze, but there’s no bonus reward for doing so other than the points.

Horizon Tour: Co-op Championships

  • Car: Any
  • Location: Horizon Tour (any)
  • Challenge: Win the Championship
  • Reward: 8 points

The Trial: Extreme Road Trip

  • Car: A Class, Extreme E
  • Location: Teotihuacan
  • Challenge: Win the Championship
  • Reward: 10 points, TVR Griffith

It’s a seven-challenge week thanks to the hefty tally from Horizon Tour. That’s two PR Stunts, three Seasonal Championships, and two EventLabs.

We found both EventLabs to be pretty entertaining routes. Old Bridge Rally Stage runs across a piece of rarely used terrain in the inlet, with a solo two-lap run for A Class (701-800PI) Unlimited Offroad cars, while Gummy Bear Circuit is a two-lap race against AI for B Class (601-700PI) Modern Rally cars. There’s a McLaren 600LT and a Lamborghini Huracan Performante respectively as bonuses.

As we’ve seen across the series, the PR Stunts this week are open to any vehicle so long as it doesn’t exceed 998PI at the top of the S2 Class. They both award their usual two points and a Super Wheelspin.

Again, you’re looking at running close to personal bests here, so neither is too tricky. You’ll need something to cope with the run across the top of the dunes for the 460m target at the Desert Dunes Danger Sign, and something slidey for the 100,000pt mark in the Costera Drift Zone.

The three Seasonal Championships are the normal three-race events against “Highly Skilled” AI. In each case you’ll need to top the points table at the end of the racing to earn five points and a bonus reward.

We see another mix of fast and slow this week too. Woo-Hoon! is a Road Racing series for S2 Class (901-998PI) Extreme Track toys and awards a Zenvo ST1. City Focus also runs on road, but in slower B Class (601-700PI) cars from Japan, with a Ford Focus RS up for grabs. Finally there’s the Dirt Racing Audi Feel About This? for C Class (501-600PI) Pickups and 4x4s, awarding an Audi TTS.

EventLab: Gummy Bear Circuit

  • Car: B Class, Modern Rally
  • Location: Club de Opala
  • Challenge: Win the Race
  • Reward: 3 points, Lamborghini Huracan Performante

EventLab: Old Bridge Rally Stage

  • Car: A Class, Unlimited Offroad
  • Location: Costa Rocosa
  • Challenge: Win the Race
  • Reward: 3 points, McLaren 600LT

PR Stunt Danger Sign: Desert Dunes

  • Car: S2 Class
  • Location: Dunas Blancas
  • Challenge: 460m
  • Reward: 2 points, Super Wheelspin

PR Stunt Drift Zone: Costera

  • Car: S2 Class
  • Location: Playa Azul
  • Challenge: 100,000pts
  • Reward: 2 points, Super Wheelspin

Seasonal Championship: Audi Feel About This?

  • Car: C Class, Pickups & 4x4s
  • Location: Teotihuacan
  • Challenge: Win the Championship
  • Reward: 5 points, Audi TTS

Seasonal Championship: City Focus

  • Car: B Class, Japan
  • Location: Ek’Balam
  • Challenge: Win the Championship
  • Reward: 5 points, Ford Focus RS

Seasonal Championship: Woo-Hoon!

  • Car: S2 Class, Extreme Track Toys
  • Location: Gran Caldera
  • Challenge: Win the Championship
  • Reward: 5 points, Zenvo ST1

Series 35 Spring Playlist: Challenges

There’s a very lonely Photo Challenge making up all one of the Challenges this week (hence the rejig of the images…).

Nonetheless, you’ll be on #TopOfTheWorld as you photograph any Lamborghini model at Gran Caldera, to earn two points and a Donut Media Pop-Up Headlights horn.

Photo Challenge: #TopOfTheWorld

  • Cars: Lamborghini (any)
  • Location: Gran Caldera
  • Challenge: Photograph any Lamborghini at Gran Caldera
  • Reward: 2 points, Donut Media Pop-Up Headlights Horn

Series 35 Spring Playlist: Monthly Events

Unlike us you should have finished the Monthly Events by now (it makes the images look cleaner and more consistent!), but just in case you haven’t they’re still worth one point to each season across the Series, for a total of eight this month.

These events are similar to Rivals challenges, as you race against a ghost car from a human opponent. However you’re not required to beat it, just to set a clean time on the course. That means no Rewind, no missed checkpoints (good luck on the Sprint this time), and no hitting solid things like barriers.

The regular Monthly Event is a DLC Pack teaser, using the Universal Studios Jeep Wrangler Jurassic Park at San Juan Scramble, while Forza EV puts you in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 for the Linea Costera Sprint point-to-point course.

Forza EV: Linea Costera Sprint

  • Cars: Hyundai Ioniq 5 (provided)
  • Location: Costa Rocosa
  • Challenge: Post a Clean Time
  • Reward: 4 points (1 added to each season)

Monthly Rivals: San Juan Scramble

  • Cars: Universal Studios Jeep Wrangler Jurassic Park (provided)
  • Location: San Juan
  • Challenge: Post a Clean Lap
  • Reward: 4 points (1 added to each season)

Series 35 Spring Bonus DLC Events

If you own the DLC packs there’s up to 14 bonus points available to you too. Each location offers seven points, from a two-point PR Stunt and a five-point Seasonal Championship, and they’re not required for Playlist completion but do give a little leg-up when 18pt are locked in Multiplayer.

Once more, the two PR Stunts both require the same car type as the main map — any car up to the top of S2 Class (901-998PI) — and reward you with a Super Wheelspin too. It’s another Drift Zone in Hot Wheels, with a 180,000pt target for Rockslide, while there’s a Speed Zone through heavy sand at Crateres Secos in Rally Adventure; 74mph isn’t easy here either.

The Rally Adventure Seasonal, Feeling Right at Home, is for A Class (701-800PI) cars from the United Kingdom and awards a Chevrolet Camaro 1LE. Hot Wheels hosts the Charging up to Win event for S1 Class (801-900PI) Modern Supercars from the 2020s, awarding a Porsche Macan Turbo for the win.

Hot Wheels Drift Zone: Rockslide

  • Car: S2 Class
  • Location: Hot Wheels Forest Falls
  • Challenge: 180,000pts
  • Reward: 2 points, Super Wheelspin

Hot Wheels Seasonal Championship: Charging up to Win

  • Car: S1 Class, Modern Supercars, 2020s
  • Location: Hot Wheels Nexus
  • Challenge: Win the Championship
  • Reward: 5 points, Porsche Macan Turbo ’19

Rally Adventure Speed Zone: Crateres Secos

  • Car: S2 Class
  • Location: Sierra Nueva Crateres Secos
  • Challenge: 74mph
  • Reward: 2 points, Super Wheelspin

Rally Adventure Seasonal Championship: Feeling Right at Home

  • Car: A Class, United Kingdom
  • Location: Sierra Nueva Tierras Verdes
  • Challenge: Win the Championship
  • Reward: 5 points, Chevrolet Camaro ’18

Series 35 Spring Forzathon Shop

Two modern ways of going quick meet in the final Forzathon Shop of the Series.

Taking the showroom window is the Cupra UrbanRebel, an electric concept racer from the recently rebranded Spanish marque SEAT, for 700FP.

Alongside that is the Lamborghini Aventador SV, with the 275FP hypercar using good old V12 combustion for its 200mph+ top speed.

This week’s other store items are the Gold Leather Boots, Macarena Emote, and Cuckoo Horn. A Wheelspin and a Super Wheelspin are also available at their usual 60FP and 150FP respectively.

Series 35 Spring Forzathon Shop

  • Cupra UrbanRebel ’22 – 700FP
  • Lamborghini Aventador SV – 275FP
  • Gold Leather Boots – 75FP
  • Macarena Emote – 75FP
  • Cuckoo Horn – 75FP
  • Super Wheelspin – 150FP
  • Wheelspin – 60FP

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