{"id":362137,"date":"2025-08-21T13:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362137\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:29:19","slug":"the-setting-for-the-next-forza-horizon-game-has-seemingly-leaked-via-a-car-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362137\/","title":{"rendered":"The setting for the next Forza Horizon game has seemingly leaked via a car company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The setting for the next Forza Horizon game has seemingly been leaked thanks to a now-deleted Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>The now-deleted post, made by Cult and Classic, an Australian car importer, shows a photographer taking pictures of a car, and a caption that reads;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExciting news, we have Cody here from @forzahorizonofficial, shooting cars for the next installation in the series. As there are no late-model Kei cars in America, he has flown out fom the States to use our cars as the basis for their digital versions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are huge gamers here at Cult and Classic, and it is an honour to be supporting <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; Forza (Series) [139 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/forza-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forza<\/a> and making Kei cars accessible virtually for people who can\u2019t have them IRL. If you buy a car they\u2019ve scanned, we have a prize for you too. How good!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/s8U6ckB\" data-context=\"false\"\/>\n<p>The reference to kei cars likely points to a future game set in Japan. A Kei car is a category of car native to Japan, which is the smallest expressway-legal motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>These cars are typically used by labourers or farmers. Virtually all kei cars have been produced in Japan, meaning that it\u2019s extremely likely that if the cars are being scanned in detail, it\u2019s for use in title set in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Following its release in November 2021, <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Companies &gt; Xbox Game Studios (Microsoft) [3,629 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/companies\/microsoft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft<\/a> claimed <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; Forza Horizon 5 [117 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/forza-series\/forza-horizon-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forza Horizon 5<\/a> had enjoyed <a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/xbox-says-forza-horizon-5-was-its-biggest-launch-ever-with-over-10-million-players\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the biggest launch in Xbox history<\/a> at the time, with more than 10 million players in its first week.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the game was released on <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; PlayStation 5 [8,056 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/playstation\/ps5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlayStation 5<\/a>, where it quickly became a<a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/oblivion-remastered-was-aprils-best-selling-us-game-forza-horizon-5-leapt-from-42nd-to-2nd-due-to-ps5-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> massive hit for Microsoft.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VGC\u2019s<a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/review\/forza-horizon-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Forza Horizon 5 review<\/a> called the racer \u201cthe first essential game of the generation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForza Horizon 5 is the best game in the series and the best <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; Xbox Series X | S [6,527 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/xbox\/seriesxs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xbox Series X\/S<\/a> game to date,\u201d wrote critic Chris Scullion. \u201cIts flawless racing and wealth of activities are backed up by a gorgeous setting and a fantastic new progression system which encourages players to focus on the features they enjoy most. Utterly essential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The setting for the next Forza Horizon game has seemingly been leaked thanks to a now-deleted Instagram post.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-362137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115066998893694917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}