SOME OF MY FAVORITE CARS IN FORZA HORIZON 5

"This long-beloved sedan from the Bow-Tie boys was named after the famed city of high rollers and higher stakes. In its Super Sport dress, this Monte is a late-eighties muscle car that awaits the pleasures of the strip and begs to be flown from the highest launch points you can find. The Monte Carlo was Chevy’s standard-bearer in the realms of NASCAR until it was replaced by the Lumina, so it is no stranger to the track either. 1988 represents the last of the G-bodied Monte’s, and thus the end of an era."

"The new Acura NSX may be a hybrid, but it’s a hybrid supercar. A mid-engine, all-wheel-drive, twin-turbo, hybrid slice of pure performance. With around 600 hp from its combined 3.5-liter V6 and three electric motors driving all four wheels, what you have is a balanced and capable car that can compete with other supercars nearly ten times its price. There are nine gears to work your way through as you pass 60 mph in just over three seconds and torque-vectoring to smooth you through the curves. All the while you can still look back fondly on the original NSX that made the 2017 model possible in the first place."

"This factoid will tell you a little bit about why the X5 M is so special: it has the largest front brakes BMW has ever fitted to any of their vehicles, ever. Those huge binders, 15.5” in diameter, are there to reign in the exorbitant velocities this newest addition to the BMW Motorsport family can achieve by tapping into the gargantuan power available from the twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter V8 under the hood. Even though no one would claim the X5 is a small vehicle, the 547 horsepower on tap mitigates any weight penalty the X5 may have by propelling it to 62 mph in an astonishing 4.7 seconds. While the forward progress the X5 M makes is easy to admire, it’s the agility of the big “Sport Activity Vehicle” that really sets the X5 M apart from the competition, with a laundry list of innovative M division suspension upgrades and driver assists to bring BMW’s signature sportscar dynamics to the X5. Whether it’s driving the X5 M or admiring its aggressively tweaked lines, the X5 M is a SUV that thinks it’s a sportscar, and has the moves to match."