The next series for Forza Horizon 5 has been revealed in full in the latest “Let’s Go” stream from Playground Games, showing off the details only previously teased.
Going by the name “High Performance Dailies”, Series 37 moves the focus onto cars which offer good real-world performance without necessarily stretching the budget, or the accessible side of car enthusiasm.
While the update for an FH5 series would ordinarily come the day after a stream, the S37 update is available right now and comes in at 11.6GB on Xbox Series X.
Forza Horizon 5 Series 37 New Free Cars
It’s a little more of a compact offering that we’ve seen over the last several updates, with a total of just four vehicles available. There’s no paid DLC pack either, so it’s the smallest update in terms of new content that we can recall.
As usual there’s one brand-new car available for scoring 20 points within each of the four seasons, but that means that the overall Series rewards are repeat showings. That is at least handy if you missed the cars the first time round.
PG chose the Ford Fiesta ST to promote the stream, with this little hot hatch being one of the more ubiquitous performance vehicles across the European market. It’s designed to be spanked down a twisty B-road (or the Col de Turini, like we did in a Fiesta ST200) with its roof on fire, at a pace that a supercar would struggle to match.
Accompanying it is its bigger brother, the Focus ST, which has a similar ethos but a little more room for back-seat passengers and perhaps some nicer motorway manners. This too is everywhere on European roads, which really does make one wonder why Ford of Europe already executed the Fiesta (the UK’s best selling car for 37 of the last 40 years) in 2023 and the Focus has 11 months left to live…
The Fiesta and Focus make sense in Europe, but they’re a little down on power and size for tastes elsewhere, so the update includes two performance cars from North America.
That starts with the Toyota Camry TRD, which takes the basic Camry sedan and waves the magic wand of the famous TRD branch over it. This includes not only unique bodywork and colors, but a 300hp, 3.5-liter V6 under the nose. Oh, if only it were a 2.2…
Finally there’s the ludicrous Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, which takes a relatively regular SUV and slaps it about a bit courtesy of the SRT squad. How does a 700hp, 6.2-liter V8 sound for taking the kids to soccer practice?
Forza Horizon 5 Series 37 New Race Routes
We always say at GTPlanet that new tracks are more important than new cars, and S37 delivers on that front with four new courses.
All four are part of the Horizon Apex series which, for those not already familiar with the game’s language and subdivisions, the road racing section of the game. They’re all point-to-point sprint routes and will be added into Rivals, Festival Playlist challenges, and have new Accolades associated to them.
Cloverleaf Sprint, Rocosa Sprint, San Juan Sprint, and Valle del Rio Sprint all feature a mix of higher speed and technical sections on roads not commonly used (at least in that direction) on other fixed routes in the game. Importantly they’ll also deliver new start point locations for your own EventLab creations.
Forza Horizon 5 Series 37 New Collectibles & Other Changes
There’s a couple of new cosmetic items added this month, although from the looks of it there’s nothing new by way of EventLab pieces and decor this time round.
However there is a new outfit you’ll be able to pick up as a reward, with the Artist Outfit comprising a set of paint-spattered dungarees. You’ll also be smashing through a white collar Tank collectible later in the Series, with Business Suit Tank too busy checking his stonks and not looking both ways before he crosses.
Aside from other small fixes to cars introduced in previous updates, and the “general performance and stability fixes”, there’s not a great deal else in the update which is available now. Series 37 itself will go live at 1430 UTC on Thursday August 15.
We do now also have a small tease for Series 38, “Hidden Horizons”. That’s set to see the return of the Pathfinder mode from Series 21, a stadium transformation referred to as the “Stadium Maze”, and — most interestingly of all — “a brand-new game mode”…
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