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Grand Theft Auto VI (2025)
2025...whoa. Trailer definitely looks promising, just the thought of finally leaving Los Santos after 12 years feels refresing.
Chevrolet Corvette

Life is Strange: Before the Storm (2017)
Just a slightly modified C6 Cabrio



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2023-12-04 08:05:04
Škoda 1101 Tudor Cabriolet

Top Drives (2017)
Sadly, Hutch is still not getting years/models/trims as accurate as it should be, such as this one...
Pontiac Catalina

Stuntman (2002)
Supposed to be a Pontiac Catalina according to IMCDB:

www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1318724-Pontiac-Catalina-1970.html

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2023-11-16 10:33:17

Top Drives (2017)
Next update will include Bizzarrini, Zenvo, and... Škoda!

Last time a game featured licensed road-going cars from Škoda was back in World Racing 2, so about time another game bothered, even if they are not actual 'playable' cars.
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport

Forza Motorsport (2023)
burninrubber12345 wrote
Seriously? I thought they would add a new Bugatti such the Centodieci, Chiron Super Sport or the Voiture Noire.
And... we just got a 10+ old Veyron... yeah.


It was cut in the first place, so getting it back was a must, not having a Veyron is mental. They have a lot of work to do, taking into account adding new cars, adding returning cars, and fixing already added cars.
MG 6 XPower TCR

Forza Horizon 5 (2021)
As expected, will appear in FM23, but a picture cannot be provided for now since they mistakenly shown the already available MG 6 XPower instead...

Forza Motorsport (2023)
speedfreak975 wrote
I dont necessarily think this game does everything worse, thats inaccurate. Rivals is better, Qol done there is great. MP is leagues ahead but still needs work. Core gameplay itself is miles ahead of any of their previous games. Game has solid infrastructure to work on and improve. Ai has pace but racecraft is non existent that needs alot of work. what they've been doing for last 6 years, not sure.

Visually game suffers with bugs and oddities with materials and lighting. Hence why no entries yet.
Artistic direction is weird. Game lacks sharpness and vividness all previous Forzas have. Reflections can be stronger.

Ive taken few test shots, game can look very good under some conditions. But I'd rather wait for 1st few major updates game gets hopefully visual inconsistencies and specific car bugs are ironed out. Until then I'm buying all the cars (I'm aware you can rent, not a fan of sticking to default color options)


I respect your view, but sadly, after a few other tries of playing it, I'm raising my bar to I just plain hate this game, don't care about what does best anymore, it's like saying the Titanic while breaking in half still looked elegant.

Tried to make a race in Silverstone a few minutes ago, in order to get the Acura 'prize' car. Way too many loading screens, too much info before starting the race, the practise laps suddenly start in a place within the track you better recognize fast before you start driving, then the race, starts out of nowhere, no countdown, without time to react, sound gets stuck 10 seconds even when paused. Tracks keeps disappearing. I get so many penalties for getting off course I end up finishing 12th. Restart the race? You will be selecting again your place in the grid, checking all the driver's info again, all the loading screens...just wanted to restart the race, not the whole event to be reconfigured from scratch, so I better turn on rewind.

Still cannot import my FH5 stuff (at this point I don't feel like doing new stuff on this game altogether) and maybe the stuff I already shared has been stolen, since downloaded skins and tunes might do so unlocked, so people can do as they please.

Game's a joke, that's it. I look back at FM2-3-4-5-6 and 7, especially in the golden days of FM4 when I was still doing the shots for IGCD, and I just want to cry, they murdered the franchise. So much is broken, even at design level, I don't think this can be fixed even if they care and try, looks like it was made by a bad AI prompted by some accountants that only want to make money, but forgot that quality means sales first.

I might be too negative, but honestly, I can't find a redeeming feature in this mess. FM5 again was really poundered 10 years ago because of the lack of content, reviews show that. I defended it, thought people were unfair, I too missed a lot of things that never returned, not only then, but even today, but the game was enjoyable, felt complete, solid, stable, felt put together nicely. Looked amazing, played amazing. Now, every time I think about giving this another try, I just feel overwhelmed, as doing a chore you need to do, but don't want to. You shouldn't feel that with any game, and personally, feeling that, with a Forza title, is something I'm still trying to process, I just can't believe this is happening...

Forza Motorsport (2023)
TheGreaser wrote

J-2, who used to handle past Forzas, just could not bring himself to play it on PC (as I frequent GTPlanet). He's gotten countless problems with optimization and his passion is making authentic liveries, which I do like (and have used his full Blue Meanie Brock Commodore plenty of times), but with this entry he has had nothing but serious problems with importing designs. The bug list is the size of Prometheus and many Shakespeare works combined, worse than FH5 of all things.


Exactly right. Right now, 3 main issues are:

1-FH5 import is broken, will not sync designs and/or vinyl groups, funnily enough any other Forza titles work, so I was at least able to import old designs from FM7 and before, but sadly I started work on a complete Nissan R391 with a Le Mans livery in FH5 before the game was released. Spent hours doing really hard logos with little to none real life references to look at, and I'm not redoing them in FM just because they can't make it work, which connects to the 2nd issue:

2-The editor lacks ALL of the improvements made to FH5, the UI in FH5 is very visual and quick to work with, you can access options really quickly, the vertical layer view is nice, the car can be seen around nicely with great lightning and control over the camera. In FM23 they just took the one from FM7 and made it somehow worse, I don't like working there at all. The most simple things are now broken, a very good example extends for example to long lists. Let's say you're browsing the car catalog or your garage, you select manufacturer list view, and of course, if you want to go to the end in one click, simply hit LB to go backwards and start on z right? You can't now. You have to move forwards no matter what, and that was just a very specific and, in the big scheme of things, small issue, there are so many it makes my head spin.

3-Yet another issue to a feature I was looking for, now you can 'rent' any car of the game, paint it, and sell the design, so you don't go bankrupt trying to buy the needed cars first, and of course...it's broken. I successfully managed to try it twice, and after the 3rd time, after rebooting the game and the PC, after 2 patches...never got the feature to work ever again. Every time I select a car I don't own to paint, it just keeps loading in a loop. Not crashed, game is still working, but will not exit the loop, you need to restart the game.

So yeah, long story short, I can't enjoy driving, painting, taking pics or even take a look at cars due to all the visual bugs and issues, poor shaders and rendering (the game looks bleached out) so game will wait until it lets me enjoy it, not the other way round.

In fact, I could offer myself to start doing some pics if speedfreak975 agreed but so far I haven't been able to do a single satisfactory picture. So yeah, not looking good for now I'm afraid, game feels somehow rushed after all these development years, and at this point maybe is a good idea to actually start over and throw this to the bin, it's Titanic being patched one rivet at a time while it sinks, there are worse games out there? Definitely. As a Forza game, this is the worst one? Hands down. In every single way.
Nissan Tsuru

Forza Horizon 5 (2021)
TheGreaser wrote
Considering this car had over 4,000 votes on the suggestions hub I can see why the Tsuru was needed for Mexico since it was iconic there.


That's the main issue with the car list in FH5, they didn't focus on the local car culture, they just recycled what they already had and called it a day. With FH3 and FH4 the local content was flooding from the start, and this Tsuru should have been from the beginning too (they really thought people wouldn't push for Mexican market cars? Especially with FH3 and FH4 as examples, as if Mexico doesn't deserve that attention) and in fact, when announced I was expecting at the very least the following cars:

-1999 Dodge Ramcharger
-2014 Mastretta MXT
-1969 Shelby GT350 (Mexican version)
-1981 VAM Lerma
-2003 Volkswagen Sedán 1600i Última Edición

And the Tsuru of course. Again, sourcing and licensing are nightmare worlds of their own, but it looks they didn't even tried this time...
Nissan Tsuru

Forza Horizon 5 (2021)
Funny how they had a really hard time finding a factory stock version for sourcing, and even though this is really clean, it still has some issues, such as the missing Nissan badge in the rear, an aftermarket switch in the interior, left of the steering wheel (probably to manually activate the radiator fan) and most notably, a missing cover in the central tunnel just in front of the rear seats which allows you to see technical parts normally hidden beneath.

Forza Motorsport 4 (2011)
Victor_2003 wrote
A rare example of racing game with Porsche during the EA exclusive license period.


Well, I personally would dive deeper into that statement, FM1-FM3 were great examples of that on their own, having Porsche included in the game since day 1, with no DLC involved whatsoever.

FM4 is actually an even stranger example, since even though Porsche had to be added later in the game lifespan, it's only the 2nd game in history to feature both RUF and Porsche cars in the same game (the first one being Test Drive II) and that will sadly probably never happen again...
Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS

Forza Horizon 5 (2021)
pwingcustom wrote
Surprised it's a RHD car, not a LHD example.


Sourcing has been quite a mess historically in Forza. Ideally each model should represent their country/region, but we have a mixed bag, some JDM models are JP-Spec, some are Euro-Spec, some US-Spec...some classic British models are LHD, some European cars such as this and the newest Audi RS4 Avant are RHD, and more...I think the only thing left to see would be a JP-Spec US car, such as the Mk.V Mustang in Gran Turismo.

I understand they take what they can gets their hands into for reference, but still, it's quite a weird mix of specs all across the list.

Forza Motorsport 5 (2013)
Antti-san wrote

I wouldn't mind hearing your thoughts on the new game, J-2. :) For me, I haven't played Forza in years, and looking back the series peaked at FM4, IMO.


FM 2023...Worst Forza ever made. Period. They had extra development time, they had plenty of content and features available not from previous titles, added since this very game, and they delivered an uncomplete mess of issues and missing content. Cars, factory colors, tracks and some variants, features...so much is missing.

And of course...'built from the ground up'...no. The FM1/FM2 inaccurate models are still there (the 22B at least is supposed to have been redone, need to check that) cars that were fine have several issues now, tracks are not even up to date (Spa is several years old, Barcelona only updated the layout, not the surroundings, and as stated, variants are missing such as the Club one) the livery editor is worse than ever, the photo mode didn't get anything new from FH5, just a handful of career races available at launch, and none for racing cars...and way more things. And don't get me even more started on issues, hundreds of known and reported ones. It's just a very unpleasing experience. PC version is awful, the popping is so bad the track disappears and reappears every single second, people with RTX 4090 and 64gb RAM have the same issue, it's literally unplayable right now.

I know they want to play the long game here, but they do need to take drastic measures now unless their plan is to kill the Motorsport division based on poor reception, and just focus on Horizon, FH5 is very well loved in comparison. Played every single Forza since the first one, and never had such a bad feeling on day one before, again, FM5 feels like a GOTY in comparison. I defended Forza when it was fair to do so, but this doesn't deserve that, I can't believe the team looked at this and thought 'yeah, fans will love that, release it!' Sad thing is I wasn't expecting a revolution here, just FM7 as a foundation, with better physics (I do have to say they are really great, not everything is bad) but this feels like FM5, but worse in every way.

Forza Motorsport 5 (2013)
Ayaka601 wrote

Yeah.Total 325 cars.Turn 10 was hurry made this Forza Motorsport.


That is true, it was rushed to meet the release window of the Xbox One in 2013, so they had the same amount of time to create it as the previous titles (2 years) and even though the amount of cut content was not much justified (many returning cars were brought straight from FM4, both good and bad models) the visuals were amazing, the new engine allowed finally for open-wheeled cars among others...

I remember it as a very enjoyable game despite the cut content, as compared to FM 2023...this feels like a GOTY in comparison. This was way more solid, stable and well done from the first second, with FM 2023 they had way more development time and well...let's just say they have tons of work ahead.
Nissan Tsuru

Forza Horizon 5 (2021)
I was betting an arm they would simply slip the Forzalopnik 1992 Sentra SE-R and call it a day...glad they did the right thing...2 years later.

How this car wasn't included since the beginning, is beyond me.

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Aston Martin Vanquish

Forza Motorsport (2023)
Antti-san wrote

Didn't realise this hasn't been in Forza since FM4! Should bring back the 2012 one too, though.


At least they brought back the '17 Zagato from FH4...top priorities at least personally would be the '77 Vantage and DB7 Zagato among others, including the Rapide, and let's not forget the One-77, which somehow didn't make the cut, plenty of missing cars to choose from.

Forza Motorsport (2023)
Finished adding all placeholders for all available cars at lauch. Every single car seen in previous media, but currently not accesible is set as Unplayable until a way to obtain them is revealed.
Nissan Bluebird Gr.5 Super Silhouette

Forza Motorsport (2023)
Antti-san wrote
Maybe it's just the blurry quality, but it looks like the livery's gone?


Yup, 100% confirmed to be gone...but since I did share a full livery back on the day, will not be a problem :D
Nissan Altima

Forza Motorsport (2023)
Stock liveries are sadly gone for this one.
Porsche 911 GT3

Forza Motorsport (2023)
Quite an unexpected return.
Mitsubishi FTO

Forza Motorsport (2023)
Victor_2003 wrote

Actually, appeared was a DLC in The Crew 2 before Forza Motorsport.


Back in Forza, I mean.
Aston Martin Vanquish

Forza Motorsport (2023)
Yet another really welcomed return.
FPV GT-F

Forza Motorsport (2023)
Yup...is bugged. Front bumper inserts should be black, not body colored.
Dodge Stealth

Forza Motorsport (2023)
Yet another 12 year old return!
Mitsubishi FTO

Forza Motorsport (2023)
Back after 12 years!

Teardown (2022)
TheGreaser wrote
This needs to be updated, as well as an updated cover art.


Done and done.
Made for Game Off-Road Vehicle

Forza Motorsport 4 (2011)
The real reason it was undrivable is FM4's game engine not being able to cope with open-wheeled suspensions such as this one (the 8 Litre falls into the same issue, since most of the mechanics underneath can easibly be seen) that's why starting with FM5, which had a brand new engine capable of that, with these 2 cars being finally drivable.
Rover Mini

Test Drive 4 (1997)
The plate is real, and belongs to a 1979 Austin Mini.

Top Drives (2017)
Updated all latest pic recrops/replacements. Most are an upgrade, but in some cases (Opel Senator, Peugeot 605) they got a better pic but for a whole different car which no longer fits the year/country displayed...

Top Drives (2017)
With 20.0 update finally added, Top Drives now currently sits at 3766 officially licensed cars!

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2023-07-28 01:25:30
Hyundai RN22e

Top Drives (2017)
Famously recently wrecked at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2023
Mazda Laputa

Top Drives (2017)
TheGreaser wrote
I think the name was meant to invoke the voyage's place from Part III of Gulliver's Travels, a book written in 1726 by the Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift.

Think about it, that word existed longer before the profanity.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver's_Travels


Well, according to the article, Jonathan Swift was fluent in Spanish so he might or might not done it on purpose. Is still a long shot, but anyway, doesn't really matter what came first, the name is still a golden spot in the bad-sounding Spanish words, along with the Mitsubishi Pajero and the Nissan Moco, so name a few.
Mazda Laputa

Top Drives (2017)
As a Spaniard, the name never fails to amaze me.
Renault R5 Turbo 3E

Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
WolfLover94 wrote
There's your car dude...nobody here is going to get that joke.


I think many people have seen Dude, Where's My Car? so it shouldn't be that hard.
Lancia Delta

Forza Motorsport (2023)
Antti-san wrote
Oh dear, cut?


Until the final list is revealed and/or any sight of any Italian Stellantis cars are seen (besides Maserati) they are gone. They were absent in FH5 for not disclosed reasons, and it seems the trend is sadly carrying on...

Funny how one of the biggest names/franchises in car games have to deal with this in every game...starting with Forza Motorsport 4 licensing has always being a Russian roulette for Forza games (Porsche, Toyota, VW, Mitsubishi, Alfa Romeo/Lancia/Fiat/Abarth...by the time a license is brought back, another one is lost)

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2023-06-14 13:10:52
Cupra Formentor

Forza Horizon 5 (2021)
Glad this is in, especially being the VZ5 with the RS3 I5 engine, 390 hp in total.
Mercedes-Benz 200 T

Retro Garage - Car mechanic simulator (2019)
alexmobil wrote

its not a Mercedes-Benz 200 T, the person who put this is not a car pro and stupid, this car is the mercedes w124 touring!!!!


Calm down, no need to call people names specially when the edit isn't that far off:

www.imcdb.org/vehicle_486583-Mercedes-Benz-200-T-S124-1988.html

I will say specifying this is a 200 T is maybe a bit too much since I can't see proof of that in the pics alone, but a 200 T did exist on this gen, and BTW, the wagon version of a W124 is a S124, so that's 100% correct by all means here and there was no need to specify that in your comment, unless you didn't know about it, which would be ironic considering you are calling others not car-pros.

Top Drives (2017)
Top Drives is now complete! Future content will be promptly added as it comes of course.
Audi A3

Darkwind: War on Wheels (2007)
shotgunner20 wrote
The file name is called "audi1"


Dead giveaway for what this is, a first gen Audi A3.
Morgan Plus 4 Plus

Top Drives (2017)
Incredibly rare, as only 26 were made.

Top Drives (2017)
I suspect a new JDM update isn't very far off, brands like Nissan or Subaru have been given lots of attention, but Honda and Mitsubishi are lack lusting to say the least, not a single Carisma, Eclipse, FTO, Galant, GTO, Legnum, or Starion to be seen, quite strange really.
Maserati GranSport

Top Drives (2017)
So according to Maserati itself, these were coded M138, but it seems the M128 was for US Spec models only, nothing really clear on those.

Top Drives (2017)
GabbyTheReaper wrote

Hey, J-2, I didn't meant to disagree or annoy you with those questions, I'm sorry if I did that to you. This car list is amazing and keep doing the good work!!


Thanks! Just reached M now, so still quite a road ahead.
Lancia Thema

Top Drives (2017)
Well, at least we can say it got licensed in a videogame...but a crying shame not in a proper '3D' way.
Koenigsegg CCXR

Asphalt 8: Airborne (2013)
Attacker1997 wrote

We don't need to follow 100% what is shown on our sister sites, since some vehicles only change the engine or in small aesthetic details. This one, for example, is just a limited edition with diamond weave carbon fiber finish


That's the trying part of it, many cars have very specific differences so it's all about finding out where to make the cut, in this case, it's quite clear for example.
Koenigsegg CCXR

Asphalt 8: Airborne (2013)
Daboi492 wrote
What was the point of point of updating all this and the F-Type pages?


The point? Well, check the changes. I'm trying to standardize car naming across IGCD and IMCDB, we have a big problem with what's put under extra info and the main name, sometimes something is considered part of the main name for a car, and sometimes it's put under extra info as if was a simple trim level, so some steps should start to happen to make it clear.
Jaguar XK-SS

Top Drives (2017)
Built up to the original car specifications, as if was a 1957...but manufactured 60 years later.
Infiniti M30

Top Drives (2017)
Definitely not made by Lexus! (movie reference, just in case)

Top Drives (2017)
With 235 cars, Ford has been finally added, being the maker with most cars on its roster (between Americans, Europeans, Aussies, Concepts, Racecars...it was to be expected) and also means that with 1433 current cars, Top Drives is now the #1 game with most cars at IGCD, which will only grow until the also current 3400 total car list is reached.
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