Where Is The Forzathon Shop

Summertime has arrived once more in Forza Horizon 5'due south Mexico, and that means it's time for a brand new Series.

Like every other Series earlier information technology, Series 8 has a special theme upon which many of the Playlist events are based beyond all four weeks. This calendar month's theme is "German Automotive Excellence", a commemoration of the cars that come from i of Europe's biggest industrial powerhouses.

Across this Series you'll be driving in every bit many German cars as you can maybe manage, and the prizes throughout the iv weeks expect to be either German language vehicles or customization items.

That means you'll be getting rather familiar with the best of Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, and Volkswagen, amidst others.

There's 3 new cars in the Series, all available to win through the Playlist, with the Audi RS4 Avant 2018, Mercedes-AMG GT S, and Porsche 911 992 GT3 2021 all prizes for 20 points in individual seasons. An appropriate Evolving Earth Accolade is also available for owning all 3.

Series 8

As the theme for this calendar month is "German Automotive Excellence", information technology's probably no surprise that the series rewards hail from the country. Neither is sectional to the playlist, simply both will make a fine add-on to your collection.

Score fourscore points beyond the Series and you'll win a Mercedes-AMG E63. This big sedan comes with a pretty large engine in the form of AMG'due south four-liter, twin-turbo V8 — possibly non as big as when the car originally got its name (although fifty-fifty so information technology was a 6.2, not a 6.3), but with over 600hp it's no slouch.

It's a car that you tin can't purchase in FH5, as it doesn't announced in the Autoshow at all. That means the small-scale amount of points needed this week is probably a improve way than waiting for it to show up on a Wheelspin, or in the Forzathon Shop.

You certainly can buy the higher-tier reward car, but y'all'll demand very deep pockets. The Machine Wedlock Type D comes in at 15 million credits, then it's well worth trying to max out your points each season this Series to score the 160 required.

Information technology's one of the most famous and virtually successful pre-state of war chiliad prix cars, with a twin-spiral V12 delivering shut to 500hp to the rear wheels. Car Wedlock, one of several brands that formed the afterwards Audi brand, just well-nigh mopped up the 1000 prix circuit with its cars, and the D scored victories at Reims and Monza.

The Summer flavour runs through to 1430UTC on Thursday June 2, while Serial viii will continue on until the aforementioned time on Thursday June 23.

Summer

Information technology's all nigh Porsche in the kickoff rewards list for Serial 8, with two of the brand's sportiest offerings available. Neither is a Playlist sectional, simply they'll relieve yous a good chunk of money past earning them this way.

First up for xx points is the 959. This was really the beginning supercar produced by the brand, although the fact information technology's rear-engined and iv-wheel drive might brand supercar purists a bit cross.

Information technology was a technical masterpiece, combining everything Porsche knew about making the 911 get fast with semi-sibling make Audi'southward proof of the power of four-bicycle drive in rally.

The consequence was a Group B homologated racer that was at dwelling pretty much anywhere. That included back-to-dorsum Dakar rally wins and — in rail-racing 961 guise — a run at Le Mans. The road car could hitting a handy 198mph, making it the fastest product car in the world at the time, although some variants could go faster still.

For xl points you lot can selection upwards the Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0. This car acted every bit a send-off for the 997-generation GT3, by plumbing equipment it with a larger, four-liter engine instead of the 3.8 in the regular GT3 RS.

That resulted in close to 500hp, and with chassis and aero improvements derived from the turbocharged GT2 model, information technology was the quickest GT3 effectually at the time.

Porsche only made 600 cars in total, but of grade FH5 doesn't impose a similar limit. As the RS iv.0 isn't available in the Autoshow, it'due south a skillful chance to pick it upwardly — but you will need to either play on PC or take an Xbox Live Golden subscription to selection upwardly plenty points.

Forzathon Events

The German theme pervades the Playlist this month, starting with the Weekly Challenge The AMG Handling. Own and bulldoze the Mercedes-Benz SLK55 AMG to get started.

All you lot demand to do to complete the 2d stage is take a photograph of your SLK55 — although yous might like to expect until Sunday to do this. Yet you lot'll then need to score the equivalent of nine stars at whatsoever Speed Traps, so yous might want to tune the picayune hardtop convertible for a fleck more step.

Finally, accept that hopped-up car to earn and depository financial institution a total of 100,000 Skill Score; speed, slide, and blast your way to equally many points as you tin. Consummate that and you'll earn five points and 80FP (doubled to 160FP if y'all ain the La Casa Solariega thespian house).

The vii Daily Challenges — one new challenge condign bachelor each day during the season, with seven days to complete each — besides focus on German machinery. Each is worth one indicate to your season total and 20FP (again doubled to 40FP with the aforementioned histrion house).

It'southward an incredibly easy and almost unavoidable one to start this week. Own and drive any German vehicle to pass German Engineering.

Touring Masters follows on Friday, requiring you to win whatsoever 2 Road Racing Serial events using a German vehicle.

You'll and so need to pick upwardly 20 Drift or E-Drift Skills (that's a drift yous initiate with the handbrake) using the Formula Drift BMW 325i #98 to complete Globe-trotting Hour.

Smile! requires you lot to photograph any Mercedes-Benz… such equally the one you need to photograph for the Weekly Challenge.

For Peak Porsche you'll need to jump far enough to earn 5 stars at whatsoever Danger Signs using the Porsche 914/6.

It's BMW up next, as you'll need to drive ten miles in a BMW Z4 Roadster 2019 to be at One With The Road.

That leaves the final challenge for the calendar week, Going Overboard. Earn three Skillboard Skills by hitting billboards in any German language vehicle.

Flavour Events

The regular mix of events returns, with two Seasonal Championships, three PR Stunts, ii online multiplayer events, and an EventLab challenge — and there's a few links between them.

This calendar week'southward EventLab is a head-to-caput, which will run into you racing 1v1 with an opponent at a course fabricated of cargo containers. Grab any B Class (601-700 PI) German language car to take function.

Yous'll demand to have intendance on the relatively narrow circuit, laid out effectually the chief Horizon Festival, as at that place'due south enough of immovable objects sticking out to bring you to a halt at whatever given moment.

However it'southward a pretty straightforward loop, and you lot'll earn three points and a Pop'n'Lock Emote for victory in the 3-lap race.

As seems to be the norm at present, the three PR Stunts each offer two points and a Super Wheelspin for completion.

The Danger Sign, Launch Command, is also at the chief Horizon Festival, and will crave y'all to spring off the ramp propped up against the Festival cargo plane. You'll need to tune the Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG required up to the top of the A Form (701-800 PI) to make the 320m altitude.

For the Las Curvas Drift Zone you'll need to head into Tierra Prospera, near the Street Scene Outpost. Although the Formula Migrate BMW #98 needed is platonic for the run, you'll demand to score 90,000pt — 50% more than than the iii-star score. You can tune information technology or leave information technology stock equally information technology naturally sits in the S1 Course (801-900 PI).

Switchbacks is the Speed Zone on the lower eastern slopes of the volcano. Once more, this is i where the car can't quite practice the job in stock class, merely turn the 2015 Audi TT-S up to the acme of A Class (701-800 PI) and you'll be fine. Naturally your best bet would be to make the run downhill and let gravity do some of the work.

The Seasonal Championships run on mixed surfaces this week, with a Street Racing Series event and 1 from the Cross Country Serial. Equally usual each is a three-race championship against Highly Skilled AI Drivatars.

Meet and Street runs on the blacktop, and requires Audi or Porsche cars in the A Form (701-800 PI) functioning bracket. You lot'll win v points and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS 2019 for overall victory.

For Choice Me Up yous'll need something that tin can handle rough terrain, with B Class (601-700 PI) Pickups and 4x4s required. Come out on summit and y'all'll grab five points and a Mercedes-Benz 190E. Keep hold of this, because you'll need it for The Trial.

EventLab: Shipyard Autocross Battle

Motorcar: B Class, Germany
Location: Horizon Festival, Festival Elevate Strip
Challenge: Win the Race
Reward: 3 points, Popular'due north'Lock Emote

Danger Sign: Launch Control

Auto: A Course, Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG
Location: Horizon Festival, Launch Command Danger Sign
Challenge: 320m
Advantage: two points, Super Wheelspin

Drift Zone: Las Curvas

Automobile: S1 Class, Formula Drift BMW 325i #98
Location: Tierra Prospera, Las Curvas Drift Zone
Challenge: xc,000pt
Reward: 2 points, Super Wheelspin

Speed Zone: Switchbacks

Automobile: A Course, Audi TT-S
Location: La Gran Caldera, Switchbacks Speed Zone
Challenge: 95mph
Reward: ii points, Super Wheelspin

Seasonal Championship: Come across and Street

Car: A Class, Audi/Porsche
Location: Rio de la Selva, Wetland Accuse
Challenge: Win the Championship
Reward: 5 points, Porsche 911 GT3 RS 'xix

Seasonal Title: Pick Me Up

Car: B Class, Germany, Pickup & 4x4s
Location: Ek'Balam, Tropico Cantankerous Land
Challenge: Win the Championship
Reward: five points, Mercedes-Benz 190E

Yous will need Xbox Live Aureate, or to play on PC, in order to access online multiplayer for the two online events, this week consisting of The Trial and Seasonal Playground Games.

Playground Games is chosen Downwardly The Hatch this week, which is something of a clue for what car you'll need. Any Hot Hatch volition do so long equally it's B Class (601-700 PI) and, of course, German language.

It's the usual all-time-of-3 set of games, of Infected/Zombies, King, and Flag Rush, equally you pair up with five other players to take on a squad of six boyfriend humans.

Winning isn't necessary to take the prizes, which are three points and a Volkswagen Golf R '10 this week, so just accept fun. Also keep that Golf, as information technology'll come in handy for the Photo Claiming.

There'due south something of a change to The Trial this series. In order to equalize things, each consequence this month will require standard cars in stock form just, and for this week's outcome that will be the Mercedes-Benz 190E. If you don't already take one, you can win one at the Pick Me Upwards Seasonal Title above.

How that changes the balance is unknown right now, simply the result volition still be half-dozen humans vs. six "Unbeatable" AI drivatars, and then the inability to melody your vehicle might make life harder.

The challenge for The Trial usually comes from your team-mates though. Although The Trial is a team game, rewarding each driver 100 points for every opponent they vanquish, some players still have a win-at-all-costs approach. Frequently it's a smarter play to hold up (or crash out) the AI to allow your team-mates to pass than it is to attempt to overtake 1 car ahead of you.

Even so, the 190E is but about at the height of the C Course performance subclass, so the relatively low speeds might make things better. Or at least more controlled in the braking zones.

You'll need to win as a squad in the best-of-three Road Racing Series event to take ten points and the bonus prize of a 2012 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Black — which might come in useful in a hereafter season…

Seasonal Playground Games: Down The Hatch

Car: B Class, German Hot Hatch
Location: El Estadio Horizon
Claiming: Consummate the Championship
Reward: 3 points, Volkswagen Golf R '10

The Trial: Stock Showdown – Mercedes-Benz 190E

Motorcar: Mercedes-Benz 190E, No Upgrades
Location: El Estadio Horizon
Challenge: Win the Title
Advantage: ten points, Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Black '12

Challenges

There some other compact set of Challenges this week, with a Treasure Hunt and a Photo Challenge, plus the now regular Horizon Open claiming. You volition crave an active Xbox Live Golden subscription to access the Open event, unless you play on PC.

For the Photo Challenge, #OnCourse, you lot'll be Golfing while you Golf. Grab a 2010 Volkswagen Golf R — from the Playground Games event in a higher place if you don't already have i — and head over to the Club de Opalo de Fuego on the south-west declension. Take a snap to consummate the job for 2 points and the Light Blue High Tops habiliment item; sadly there'southward no bonus for being on the golf form when you do it.

The Power Up Treasure Hunt'southward clue states that "It's time to go electric in the clover zone!". That doesn't take much try to decipher, especially with the picture of the Porsche Taycan as the thumbnail.

If you're struggling, yous'll need to take the Taycan — information technology is, after all, the just High german EV in the game — and score at least one star in the Tresor (it's Spanish for "clover") Speed Zone on the chief highway by the cloverleaf junction. That volition generate the map clue: a cherry circle zone showing you lot where you will need to await to find the treasure chest.

This week that's close by, between Cordillera and San Juan, under the northenmost electricity pylon in the zone. Smash it and y'all'll take iii points and 100FP.

The Horizon Open challenge is Open up Flavour. It's a unproblematic task: just complete any kind of Horizon Open race consequence in whatever High german car. The advantage is two points and a 2013 BMW M6.

With a new Series comes a new Monthly Rivals result. For this you'll demand to complete a clean lap at the event shown on the Playlist — and you can enter information technology directly from the Playlist screen, to save time.

This calendar month information technology'south a fourth dimension trial at the Arch of Mulege Circuit, inside the boondocks of Mulege. Set a clean lap in the new-to-game Porsche 911 GT3 '21 provided to yous — it doesn't need to be fast, simply clean — and you'll win four points spread beyond the entire Serial.

You can complete the result at any time during the 4-week Series, and it will honour one point to each of the 4 seasons (four in total), backdating it to completed seasons if required.

Horizon Open: Open Season

Cars: Any German language car
Location: Horizon Open Racing (whatsoever)
Claiming: Complete a Horizon Open race in any German language car
Advantage: 2 points, BMW M6 '13

Photo Challenge: #OnCourse

Cars: Volkswagen Golf game R '10
Location: Lodge de Opalo de Fuego
Challenge: Photograph the Volkswagen Golf R '10 at Club de Opalo de Fuego
Reward: 2 points, Light Blue Loftier Tops

Treasure Hunt: Power Upward

Cars: Porsche Taycan Turbo South
Location: Cordillera, Trebol Speed Zone
Challenge: Score one star in the Trebol Speed Zone, discover the Treasure Breast
Reward: 3 points, 100FP

Monthly Rivals: Arch of Mulege Circuit

Cars: Porsche 911 GT3 '21 (Provided)
Location: Mulege, Curvation of Mulege Circuit
Challenge: Post a Clean Lap
Reward: 4 points (1 added to each flavor)

Forzathon Shop

Forzathon Shop is naturally too quite German this week, with three themed items.

Headlining the store is the Audi R8 '13. This monster was Audi's first ever supercar, coming in four.2-liter V8 and five.two-liter V10 forms. The car hither is the later V10, with a piddling extra power from its Lamborghini-derived engine as it's the Plus model.

Although many purists adopt the transmission V8 model, the dissonance the V10 makes is difficult to argue with, and the R8 brought Audi great success in GT3 racing.

Information technology's not a car you can just buy in FH5 either, so although 700FP sounds like a lot, it'due south an easy style to become the car into your garage — and doubtless it'll be needed later in the Series.

For 200FP you tin can pick upward the Formula Migrate BMW 325i #98, which you'll need in events this week. Still you can purchase this in the Autoshow for just 300,000cr, so the selection is yours.

Store items this week are the Frg Cap and the Sea of Thieves Theme Horn at 75FP each. The Wheelspin (60FP) and Super Wheelspin (150FP) are in their usual spots also.

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