History Videogame / ForzaMotorsport

* VanityLicensePlate: While none of the cars have license plates affixed, it's easy to create (or download) a decal to use as a license plate. You can then stick whatever you want on it.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: One of the complaints a few reviewers had about early titles in the series was that some of the cars did not sound like they would in real-life. However, those cars sound ''exactly'' like they do in real-life. The audio engineers even went and sampled the individual components of those cars' engines on electric motors so they could fine tune individual engine noises as players modified their vehicles. However, this is not necessarily how [[TheCoconutEffect those vehicles sound in Hollywood films]].

** The downloadable RUF [=CTR2=] is credited as being rear wheel drive when the car is actually all wheel drive
*** Jossed, as the [=CTR2=] is incredibly difficult to come across, and the only one Turn 10 could source was a U.S. specification model, with RWD being the chosen drivetrain at the original owner's request.
** Cars which have Esso sponsoring are instead replaced with Exxo sponsoring, Esso's U.S. counterpart. Down to ExecutiveMeddling however.

* DownloadableContent: Mostly in the form of car packages and the occasional track. ''Forza 4'' has monthly car packs, which have an assortment of cars - so far, the packs usually contain at least 1 classic car, a few modern cars, a truck, a newer-model year of an existing car or a racing version of an existing car, and purpose built racing cars.

* ExpansionPack: The Porsche expansion pack in ''Forza 4'', coming out in May. Re-introduces 23 of Forza 3's Porsches, adds 7 new ones that weren't in previous games, adds achievements, and adds more singleplayer events.

** The May DLC for ''4'' has a Smart ForTwo, a Ford Transit van [[hottip:*: it's the racing version, but it's still a ''delivery van'']], and the AMC Pacer X.

** The car dominating the lower class leaderboards in ''Forza 4''? The hybrid Chevrolet Spark.

** [[FanDumb Fan Dumb]] from the Gran Turismo side bring up how Gran Turismo 2 - a game released in 1999 - still manages to exceed Forza 4 in the amount of cars it has, even with 12 DLC packs. What they fail to spot is how many of those cars were rehashed clones of the same car, where as Forza's DLC adds new cars every time, with a few exceptions (the only reason a 2012 Scion tC was added was down to marketing, most likely).

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Some of the cars have small inaccuracies - one of the Skylines has the wrong brake light setup, and one of the Lexuses in ''Forza 3'' had the gas cap on the wrong side. Some very rare cars, like the [=RUFs=], can be customized by the manufacturer (by request) from their standard configurations, such as the [=CTR2=], which is normally all-wheel-drive; the car that Turn 10 tested was customized to rear-wheel-drive, so the car is rear-wheel-drive in-game. It also featured the mandatory U.S. spec reflector bar on the rear panel, something which is not seen on any other game featuring the CTR2.

** 4 starts with a practice race in a Ferrari 458 Italia, and makes you pick between a Toyota Agyo or a Chevrolet Spark.

** Generally justified, as ''4'' features a lot more niche and unique cars where no real company would design aftermarket parts for them. However, said niche cars often use engines or are actually built from other cars (for example, the Bertone Mantide is just a Corvette ZR1 with a lighter, radically designed body), so the reason why aftermarket companies were removed besides advertising billboards remains unclear. The most obvious reason would be that it serves no purpose besides promoting the products in real life.
* BreatherLevel: Bowling and Car Passing events in ''Forza 4''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The reason why Porsche isn't in ''Forza 4''. ElectronicArts basically holds the rights to use Porsche vehicles in their games, and in the middle of Forza's development, they told the Forza developers to get rid of the Porsches.
** [[http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/en-us/porsche_expansion_announce/?fwlhd=1 Porsche will be returning to FM4 as an expansion pack in May.]]

* PaletteSwap: Acura NSX versus Honda NSX - the Acura has the steering wheel on the left side, different paint schemes, and different badges. Also includes the Toyota Soarer versus the Lexus [=SC430=]; again, different badges and steering position. The Acura and Lexus cars are otherwise identical to the original car.
** Nissan Skyline 350GT versus Infiniti G35. Exact same car besides badging and steering wheel position, although weirdly, the Nissan has a higher performance index.

** ''Forza 2'', ''3'' and ''4'' also have "unicorn cars". These cars cannot be bought in-game, and are only available from offocial competitions or via auction (if you have the millions of credits needed)

* TeleportSpam: A non-intentional, hilarious side effect of players joining with terrible connections. Cars with poor connections will start phase-shifting across the track wildly, suddenly appearing in the sky, partially submerged in the ground, or [[TeleFrag inside someone's car]].

* ScunthorpeProblem: Rigidly enforced by the Xbox Live Language filter.

* WronskiFeint: If an AI car is riding on your ass and they only start to overtake you right before a turn, they'll go flying through the turn from breaking too late, often slamming into a wall. Happens frequently in multiplayer when dealing with [[CarFu rammers]] - if you see someone aiming to smash into you, just go wide at a turn and smash on the brakes, and the rammer will go flying through the turn and smash into the walls of the track.

** Generally justified, as "4" features a lot more niche and unique cars where no real company would design aftermarket parts for them.

* BrandX: Performance parts in ''Forza 4'' are a generic brand, unlike ''3'', where most of the ports were "made" by a certain manufacturer, such as K&H making air filters for certain car brands.

** Some DLC cars, presumably due to rushed programming to get the car pack ready in time, take this even further; the driver's door may be hit, but the game counts this as a ruined rear bumper. Could be considered [[FridgeBrilliance]] if the player assumes this is down to the way the car is built, but it's most likely a small error.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Some of the cars have small inaccuracies - one of the Skylines has the wrong brake light setup, and one of the Lexuses in ''Forza 3'' had the gas cap on the wrong side. Some very rare cars, like the [=RUFs=], can be customized by the manufacturer (by request) from their standard configurations, such as the [=CTR2=], which is normally all-wheel-drive; the car that Turn 10 tested was customized to rear-wheel-drive, so the car is rear-wheel-drive in-game.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Some of the cars have small inaccuracies - one of the Skylines has the wrong brake light setup, and one of the Lexuses in ''Forza 3'' had the gas cap on the wrong side.

* TheAllegedCar: ''Forza 4'' features famous Alleged Cars like the Ford Pinto, Chevrolet Corvair, and the Mustang King Cobra. However, despite being ''painfully'' slow, they all work just as well as any other car.

* Griefer: A subset of players exist solely to ram other cars off the track. Most often, they choose the heaviest cars/trucks in the game, and wait for the leader to come around on the final lap before slamming them off-track.
** Which usually means anyone else choosing them is immediately kicked from a game by the other users as a precaution.

* DrivingStick: ''Forza 3'' and ''Forza 4'' allow the player to set the shifting behavior to "Manual + Clutch". On the Xbox controller, you'll have to hold down the LB button while shifting up or down. On expensive racing wheels (like the Fanatec CSR), this mode will make you use the clutch pedal and the 6 speed H-pattern shifter. Poor shifting will result in near-stalls, engine damage (shifting into first gear at 200mph, for example), or engine lugging. If you don't use the clutch when starting from a standstill (such as at the start or after a wreck), the engine will repeatedly nearly seize-up, resulting in a ''painfully'' slow start, especially in cars with huge turbochargers.

* EasierThanEasy: All the games (but 3 in particular) have plenty of ways to make things easier on yourself. You're encouraged to crank up the difficulty and turn off the driver aids, though: the harder the difficulty is, the more money you earn.

* EveryCarIsRearWheelDrive: [[ShownTheirWork HEAVY DUTY]] Aversion - if the tail end is sliding on your SEAT, unless [[BadassDriver you're doing it on purpose]], it's because you ruined the suspension. However, if the manufacturer also has rear wheel drive cars, you can typically perform RWD swaps on the cars - so you could make a RWD Honda Civic - or a FWD Honda NSX.

* MightyGlacier: The HUMMER H1 Alpha in ''Forza 4''. It's nigh-impossible to really damage, and weighs the better part of ''eight thousand pounds''. The "Weight removal" upgrade on it effectively acts like removing an entire Ford Focus from the weight of the truck.

** For instance, a shunt in the rear will damage the [[CaptainObvious rear bumper]] and can usually be shrugged off. However, changing down a gear without lowering the revs sufficiently will [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything wreck the gearbox]] and severely limit your top speed and acceleration.

* [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Loads And Loads Of Cars]] ''Forza 4'' has almost 500 cars, with at least sixty more to come from downloadable content.
* LuckBasedMission: Track Day events, if you're trying to get a "Clean" laps (no contact with other cars, no drafting, you stay on the track at all times, you don't use the rewind feature). The AI cars that drive around the track will brake and swerve with no warning.

* NintendoHard: R1 class production races with all assists turned off and the AI on hard. The R1 Le Mans Prototype cars have ridiculously insane amounts of power, and the ''slightest'' twitch in your finger on the throttle is almost guaranteed to cause you to spin out and mash into a wall.
* OldSaveBonus: Having a Forza 3 game save will reward Forza 4 players with additional credits, some cars importing, and an achievement.
* PassThroughTheRings: Autocross events in ''Forza 4''. Cones are set up to form gates along the track, and you pass between them as you go along the track. Hitting the cones results in a +5 second time penalty to your lap. The cones are set up to form slaloms and create extremely tight corners, making them excellent ways to test a car's handling and stability.
* PreOrderBonus: Preordering ''Forza 4'' would give you the [[CoolCar Mazda RX-7 Spirit-R]] Unicorn car in ''Forza 3'', which you could then import into ''Forza 4''. Multiple retailers had their own preorder cars, like the Honda CR-Z from the online Microsoft Store, a BMW 1M from Best Buy, 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX [=STi=] fro Amazon, Alfa Romeo Giulietta from [=GameStop=], and the Mini JCW Clubman from Wal-Mart. The pre-order store cars can all be unlocked for 560 MS points, but the RX-7 remains exclusive to people who preordered, or players who win official contests.
* RareVehicles: Has both actual examples of rare cars (eg. The Ferrari [=F50=] GT), and in-game examples, known as "unicorn cars" in the fanbase. These pop up once in a while on the auction site, usually adorned with some very well done, elaborate paintjob and/or heavily modified. As a result, they tend to sell for millions of in-game credits. And yes, 4 has an achievment that's acquired by winning a unicorn in an auction.

* ArtificialStupidity: AI drivers will occasionally spontaneously swerve all over the road and mash into each other, and it's easy for them [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZQtLAHNs3I to get stuck on each other]]. Forza 3 AI is infamously slow, as they did not upgrade their cars, making singleplayer more of a series of hotlaps than an actual race. Using the rewind feature in ''Forza 4'' will cause the AI cars to swerve to the racing line the instant you stop rewinding - regardless of what is in the way.
** Track Day events in Rivals (doing hotlaps with 11 slow cars driving around the track with you, sort of like traffic) provides plenty of examples of ArtificialStupidity. The traffic cars drive ''painfully'' slowly, and veer wildly over the track for no apparent reason. They often slow down their speed to ''single digits'' on some corners, and they hold no concept of right-of-way; for example, if you're trying to overtake a Ford Pinto in your Ferrari, the Pinto may suddenly swerve into you as the Pinto tries to pass another, even ''slower'' car ahead of it. The ten mile long Fujimi Kaido Track Day Rivals event turns into ThatOneLevel because your lap instantly becomes "dirty" (and goes way down the leaderboards) if you so much as touch one of the dumb traffic cars.

** The SSC Ultimate Aero is the second fastest car in the world, with ''1200'' horsepower and torque. The top speed is higher than the Veyron - but it's rear wheel drive, not all wheel drive. What this essentially means is that you get wheelspin well into third gear, making the car nearly un-drivable without traction control enabled.
** Cowl hood scoops and air scoops in ''Forza 4''. They look badass, and reduce weight (being made from aluminum, fiberglass, or carbon fiber instead of steel), but they severely restrict interior vision - the king of these being the cowl available on the 2002 Trans-Am, which blocks ''all'' of your vision in the cockpit view, [[http://i.imgur.com/MHjja.jpg as the cowl is pretty much right at eye level]].
* AwesomeYetPractical: Turbochargers, which provide a massive speed boost for almost no weight gain.
* BoringButPractical: Weight removal and tire upgrades, which are likely going to be the most commonly used upgrades.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: In-game example. The Hired Driver in Forza 3 and 4. For a mere 50% of your winnings (which some players can make up for by removing driver aids they'd normally use and upping the AI's difficulty), he'll basically guarantee a win in any race on any difficultly. The Hired Driver basically drives like [[TopGear The Stig]].

* GameBreakingBug: ''Forza 4'' had a bug in online player where players may hang up in loading screen - sometimes up to ''five minutes'', until the game boots them out to the lobby or pukes up a "disc is dirty" error. When this happens, the ''entire lobby'' gets stuck in the loading screen until the person causing the delay get booted out by the game. The best part? It happens more often when there's more players - meaning that game with more than 8 players are currently effectively impossible to play without huge waits.
** Patched in the March 23rd update.