Just last week, we brought you images of the Gran Turismo Hot Wheels collections set to arrive in stores later this year. What we overlooked at the time was that the site responsible for the sneak peak (the T-Hunted blog) also had a smaller, interesting look at the other big console racing tie-up with the diecast giant: Forza.
Much like the GT collaboration, the Forza car selection looks different than the one we originally reported back at the beginning of the year. While that five-car pack largely covered cars that have already been seen in the series, the two leaked images show off cars that have (at this point) never appeared in any Forza game: the 2016 Chevy Camaro SS and 2016 Ford Focus RS.
The Focus in particular will no doubt frustrate players. The hot 350hp, all-wheel-drive Focus has yet to arrive in the game, despite showing up to promote the game pre-release at Gamescom last year. In fact, it’s the only Ford Performance product not in Forza 6, a strange omission given the close partnership with the Blue Oval that resulted in the stunning 2017 Ford GT cover car.
The Camaro is the new, sixth-generation model introduced late last year. Forza 6 currently includes the GT-R-baiting, fifth-gen Z/28 as the youngest member of the Camaro family. Perhaps this Hot Wheels model is a sign of things to come in Forza Horizon 3?
It looks like 2016 will be a busy year for gaming fans looking to expand their diecast collections! Which ones will you add to your desktop garage? Let us know in the Comments section.
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That’s indeed frustrating, but wasn’t GT6 even worse with the car teases? I remember the F10 M5 and F13 M6 not just attending the Gran Turismo Ronda launch celebrations, but even wearing plates that said Gran Turismo 6. And then there was the Mercedes press release and the photo of Kaz with an E63 at a GT Silverstone event and probably more I forgot…
Whatever Gran Turismo does Forza is sure to copy it. Like usual
Yup! Just like that wanna-be Deep Forest course in the main photo.
They where likely planned at the exact same time, lol.
The track is also a sea-coastlined track in a fictional setting of Rio De Janeiro. I have no idea how the correlation between a forest, and a tunnel with foilage lol.
Considering both collections were leaked at about the same time, and that Hot Wheels has had a working relationship with Forza for a few years now (sponsoring DLC packs since at least FM5), you’d be incorrect.
It’s uneducated comments like this that reflect poorly on fan bases.
I’m hanging for the Assetto Corsa cars, sure to roll a bit better eh.
Great, now we can have Forza and GT fans arguing about whose plastic toy cars are better, alongside whose plastic computer box is better. I never thought I’d see the day.
There’ll be a lot more than that I think. Phone apps, stickers, upholstery, eating utensils. You name it. Whatever will have GT and FM on it they will begin to argue about.
Plastic computer box? What else will PC elitists come up with these days to insult console users?