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* [[The Alleged Car]]: ''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.
* [[An Entrepreneur Is You]]: You can earn plenty of credits solely by selling liveries (2 onwards) and car setups (3/4) you have created. There's also the [[Auction]] House.
* [[Anti-Frustration Features]]: The rewind feature in 3. 4 has it, too, but it can be turned off for bonus credits.
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** ''Forza 3'' had the [[Game Breaker]] Porsche 550, which thoroughly dominated almost ''every leaderboard''. It was part of one of the $5 DLC packages.
* [[Car Fu]]: There are gametypes where you get points for mashing the other cars. The Cat and Mouse gametype requires you to defend your team's Mouse (a slow car) and take out the enemy Mouse and their Cats (high performance cars), which usually means mashing into the enemy Mouse as fast as possible and trying to flip them over. There's also a more standard demolition derby gametype, where you get points for ramming players at high speed.
** Online play can frequently turn into [[Car Fu]], unfortunately. The ''Forza 3'''s netcode means that a slight bump can cause a car to act like you did a full blown PIT maneuver, and can result in a pileup with every player mashing into each other; the first corner of a track is notorious for causing these pileups. The problem of slight taps sending cars spinning has been fixed in ''Forza 4'', but there are usually pileups at the first corner because people drive like idiots.
* [[Character Tiers]]: [[In-Universe|A game mechanic]], each car is given a numerical value called their Performance Index (PI), which is then matched to a letter grade; higher letters mean faster classes. Cars can be upgraded to higher classes, and a few can be creatively ''downgraded'' to lower classes too, with engine or aspiration swaps or by installing heavy rims. In general the classes can be thought of as: -
** F class - City cars, old economy cars, hybrids
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** S class - Modern supercars, "track day" cars
** R3 class - Hypercars and road-car based racing cars.
** R2 class - Purpose built racing cars which still resemble roadcars.
** R1 and X class - Le Mans Prototype cars.
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** For instance, M. Rossi's cars are [almost] always [[Law of Chromatic Superiority|red]], as close to [[wikipedia:Rosso corsa|Rossa Corsa]] as possible.
* [[Cool Car|Cool Cars]]: Hundreds of them! And that's ''before'' you start loading them with performance upgrades and light body kits.
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* [[Suspiciously Similar Song|The Junkie XL Version]]: A lot of the songs in the first game were done this way.
* [[Joke Character]]: Hybrids, which for the most part, are outran by ''everything'' else in the game when stock. You can of course, turn them into insane drag racers because of Forza's huge customization, though.
** The May DLC for ''4'' has a Smart [[For Two]], a Ford Transit van <ref> it's the racing version, but it's still a ''delivery van''</ref>, and the AMC Pacer X.
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: The city cars are ridiculously fast when upgraded, and handle very well.
** The car dominating the lower class leaderboards in ''Forza 4''? The hybrid Chevrolet Spark.
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* [[Magikarp Power]]: The [[The Alleged Car|Datsun 510]] and [[Joke Character|VW Rabbit]] in the third game absolutely dominate with enough modification, although any heavily modified car applies.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: 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.
** And even after applying full weight reduction, it's still heavier than the second-heaviest car in the game.
* [[Multi-Track Drifting]]: There is nothing (besides common sense) stopping you from tuning the 4 ton [[Joke Character|HUMMER H1 Alpha]] to be used as a drift car.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Any event with a field of R1 Le Mans Prototype cars and no assists. These cars have 6-700 horsepower but only weigh 900kg ''at most'', so the slightest twitch on the throttle is almost guaranteed to cause you to spin out and mash into a wall.
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** There are numerous examples of actual rare cars. For instance, you could be in a race with sixteen Ferrari F50 [[G Ts]] - Ferrari only made three!
** ''Forza 2'', ''3'' and ''4'' also have "unicorn cars". These cars cannot be bought in-game, and are only available from official competitions or via auction (if you have the millions of credits needed)
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: 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 [[The Coconut Effect|those vehicles sound in Hollywood films]].
* [[Rice Burner]]: Some people do up their cars like this.
** Painting and selling cars was such a major part of the Forza 2 community that it got turned into an entire section of the game in 3, complete with leaderboards.
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* [[Scenery Porn]]: The Fujimi-Kaido track in 3; cliff faces, rivers, waterfalls, and none of this is in the skybox. You can actually look alongside the track and see some rapids with water flowing over them. They even put in a small scenic overlook so you could stop and gawk at it all.
** Forza 4. The Alps. Whoa.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** The "Out of time achievement in 4 is to [[Back to The Future|reach 88 miles per hour in a Delorean]].
** The loading screen for Drift events has a [[Initial D|white Toyota AE86]] drifting through a corner.
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