{"id":1957248,"date":"2026-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1957248"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:00:00","slug":"forza-horizon-6-the-20-coolest-cars-in-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1957248","title":{"rendered":"Forza Horizon 6: the 20 coolest cars in the game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forza Horizon 6<\/em> is here, and it\u2019s pretty perfect. One of the only downsides is the smaller vehicle roster versus its predecessor, but with more than 550 available at launch you\u2019re hardly limited for choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll see articles out there telling you about the fastest cars, the best for each event type and category, but that doesn\u2019t tackle the most important aspect of all: how cool they are. These vehicles won\u2019t win you races regardless of your skill, or outpace your rivals. But they will ensure you\u2019ll look absolutely immaculate, whatever position you finish in. Buy them, and sit back in the knowledge that you\u2019ve won before the race even started.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The fact that Alfa Romeo is in the game at launch this time is a victory in itself, with\u00a0Forza Horizon 5<\/em> having launched with nary a cloverleaf in sight. We were tempted by earlier models, but the touring car pedigree of this confrontationally boxy 155 wins out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 1964 DB5 has appeared in Forza<\/em> titles all the way back to\u00a0Horizon 3<\/em>, and every time it returns it looks better. A genuinely timeless chassis design, sure it has the 007 factor in its favour but it doesn\u2019t rely on big screen appearances to retain its cool.\u00a0It even drifts pretty well<\/a>\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Simply a perfect car. Not only do its analog dials and abrupt right angles conjure a dearly missed motoring era, it retains incredible poise and purpose over 40 years after the first one rolled out of Ingolstadt. \u201cThe car that did more to further the cause of the performance car than almost any other,”\u00a0we say in our review<\/a>, \u201cAudi\u2019s 4WD icon still has relevance today.\u201d Worth having in your\u00a0FH6<\/em> garage, then.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feel free to mentally swap in your M3 of choice for this entry if you feel passionately enough about it, since\u00a0FH6<\/em>\u2019s car list features all the important ones. For our money, though, it\u2019s the E46 and its beautifully balanced,\u00a0Need For Speed<\/em> cover-gracing looks that warrants an immediate Japanese road trip.<\/p>\n

Plus, in videogame form, you don\u2019t even have to worry about the harsh gear shifts \u2013 the only con in our\u00a0BMW M3 CSL review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Another entry that could be occupied by any number of equally gorgeous models from the same manufacturer, since\u00a0FH6<\/em>\u2019s Ferrari list is particularly voluminous. Designed for GT racing, where it dominated, the 250 GTO was built in small batches \u2013 only 33 of them in total. Scarcity like that isn\u2019t an issue in the digital world, though, as many\u00a0Forza<\/em> players will attest having been overtaken in their hypercar by a perfectly tuned 250 GTO in an online race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Imposingly elegant and still incredibly competitive against other cars in its class in\u00a0Horizon<\/em>, this one\u2019s a heart and a head pick combined. Better looking than that other Ferrari<\/a>, in any case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s not easy trying to follow in the GT40\u2019s footsteps, but subsequent GTs have done a spectacular job of retaining the fundamental shape and performance while cramming them full of modern tech that makes them even faster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Enter the infinitely grippy 2017 GT, a joy to drive on each and every corner in\u00a0Horizon 6<\/em>\u2019s Japan. Just know that this car\u2019s being immediately dropped from the list if we see even\u00a0one<\/em> of them suffocating in gaudy vinyls and a massive cartoon girl design. You have been warned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cA blood-curdling, eye-rattling earthquake of a car\u201d<\/a> is how we described the Venom F5 after spending some time behind the wheel. A bespoke model from Texan tuner John Hennessey, this one\u2019s not short on horsepower. 1,817 of them, in actual fact. That, obviously, makes it a perfect daily driver for popping down to the 7-Eleven and picking up a strawberry cream cheese sando.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Somehow Hyundai\u2019s attention-grabbing 2022 concept looks more at home in a videogame than on the real road. We still want one for both realms, of course, but they\u2019re considerably easier to acquire in this setting. The hydrogen fuel cell and electric powertrain give you 670bhp to play with. As long as you don\u2019t meet a Hennessey Venom F5 at the traffic lights that should be plenty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hypercars can start to feel a bit rote and homogenous in this series. Fast is fast, after all, and after a certain top speed there\u2019s not much discerning one billionaire\u2019s track toy from another. Unless you\u2019re driving a Jesko.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A terrifying nightmare of carbon fibre, seething brake discs and untamed power, this is \u201cthe hypercar\u2019s hypercar\u201d as we note in our 10\/10 review<\/a>. You could drop the better part of three million quid on one, or you could drive one in\u00a0Horizon 6<\/em>. Or both, we suppose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A controversial pick, we\u2019ll concede, but fast with a massive back catalogue of the fighting bull\u2019s heritage, we just keep coming back to this one. A marriage of nu-school battery power and combustion engine, the Revuelto is named after a famously rebellious 19th century bull who escaped the arena and into the alleys on multiple occasions, and somehow \u2013 if you squint \u2013 that maps to this hybrid. Aesthetically it\u2019s still in touch with the Diablo and Countach, but it\u2019s bleeding edge enough to look at home on Shibuya crossing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A brutalist wedge of pure performance that simply doesn\u2019t care what you think. The heritage alone makes this a prime candidate for your garage, being the first rally car built for purpose rather than converted from an existing road model.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Plus, the Hoonigan RS200 drivers get really cross when you beat them in this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Its name may sound like a vape flavour, but this is, in fact, \u201cwithout question the best-handling EV on sale\u201d as we point out in our 10\/10 review.<\/a> It debuted in\u00a0FH5<\/em>, and still has an air of exoticism which, frankly, the Porsche Taycan can\u2019t compete with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What it comes down to is this: you\u2019re going to want a drift car in this game about driving around Japan. And you could be contrarian about it, or you could just do what your heart wants and put a widebody kit on this gorgeous \u201890s incarnation of the RX-7. Who are you trying to kid?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To an entire generation of gamers, this is\u00a0the\u00a0<\/em>videogame car. Always in the upper echelons of\u00a0Need For Speed<\/em> and\u00a0Gran Turismo<\/em>\u2019s rosters and almost never spotted in the wild, the Spec II Skyline GTR has an agricultural look and feel to it, almost as though it\u2019s angry to have been taken away from its far more pressing work in the fields to entertain you on the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you dare get it in anything other than standard issue blue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You know why.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Is there another car in\u00a0FH6<\/em>\u2019s collection that more succinctly sums up a country and a decade than this one? We\u2019re betting not. The post-war fins, the domed roof and more chrome than a Noughties rapper\u2019s mouth \u2013 it\u2019s a driveable time capsule that\u2019s distinct from the other vintage US models in the game, which are all vying for dominance in the same very specific muscle car field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The\u00a0\u201cfastest and most driveable 911 there\u2019s ever been\u201d<\/a>, the Turbo S is another highly technical marriage of electric power and combustion, like the Revuelto. Also like the Revuelto, it\u2019s stayed in close touch with its ancestors and looks just as primed for a coffee table book cover as the earliest models of 911.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Renault automotive and Williams F1 had a mad idea in 1993 – what if they worked together on the popular Clio hatchback to create a special edition that was far too scary for anyone to actually drive? And thus, the Clio Williams was born. A landmark moment in hot hatch culture, and a car that retains far more dignity than its aggressively styled descendents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ultra-rare \u2013 only 53 were built in total \u2013 and effortlessly gorgeous, the Cobra has been a mainstay in\u00a0Forza<\/em> games for years but still makes us stop and have a gawp when we see one in a multiplayer race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Its low centre of gravity converts 425bhp to something useable, a huge number for 1965, and a number intended for the race track until it was converted to a road-legal model at the last minute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Forza Horizon 5<\/em> went to great efforts to place the newer Supra model at centre stage of your Mexican adventure, but it\u2019s still the \u201898 incarnation that has our hearts.<\/p>\n

This RZ model\u2019s powered by a three litre twin-turbocharged inline-six, and trying to wrestle it around rural Japan is one of life\u2019s great joys. That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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