What Is The Best Drag Car In Forza Horizon 5
Vinnie Breidenthal
To an extent, this doesn't matter too much. The game allows for a tremendous amount of customisation and upgrading, and part of the fun can be modding a London taxi cab into a drag race rocket, or a camper van into an S1-class rally car.
However, it's useful to narrow it down if you want to get the most out of each class. This page covers out picks for the best cars in a variety of categories - from the best S1 and A classes to drift and drag types - as well as, of course, our fastest car in Forza Horizon 4 pick.
Trying to work this out yourself is part of the fun. We encourage you to explore the huge range of cars available, to find cars that suit your driving style - or that you just like the look of - and adapt them to your needs.
That said, some situations require something more specific, while for the Online Adventure and ranked multiplayer modes, you'll need to have a good all-rounder car in each of the game's performance classes. So we've come up with some recommendations for you below.
For each one, we've chosen a car that is relatively easy and inexpensive to get in the game, and also suggested a tuning set-up to download from the community which will optimise the car for the task at hand.
The absolute fastest car in Forza Horizon 4 is the Ferrari 599XX Evolution, which can be modified to hit an amazing top speed of 320mph. However, it's hard to get, being available only occasionally as a reward car and commanding eye-watering eight-figure sums on the auction house.
Our pick is the Mosler MT900S. Although it's a reward car, it was gifted to all players on 1st January 2019 after a bug prevented some players from unlocking it - so even if you don't have it in your garage already, it can be picked up fairly cheaply on the auction house.
The Mosler can be modified to hit nearly 300mph, but we recommend sacrificing a little top speed and going for Kammy1001RS's 'BEST' tune, which tops out at 260 or so and handles outrageously well, making it very easy to drive for such a fast car.
For the best cars within the game's performance classes, we're looking for all-round performers in road races - these are cars that will serve you well in ranked multiplayer and online adventure.
As always, we're favouring cars that are relatively easy to acquire and drive. Note that the stock versions of these cars sometimes belong to lower classes, so don't worry if the car looks underpowered when you buy it - it's all about where it lands after applying the right tune.
Any of these cars will serve you well. The Bugatti EB110 is tough to beat and has the most striking looks, but you might find the 1.7 million credit price tag (around half that on the auction house) a bit steep.
Our pick is the Alfa Romeo 8C FE - it's affordable on the auction house for a reward car, it comes with a boost to credit earnings, and we love GTz Marple's 'ACKSPIEL' tune, which preserves the car's looks and sound while handling beautifully (via Johnson Racing on YouTube, as shown below - this channel is a great resource for car and tune picks, and they also keep a useful online spreadsheet of recommendations).
A class is our favourite class to race in - the field of competing cars is absolutely wide open and the slightly slower pace leads to some tight, close racing. You can find good tunes for a huge variety of A class cars, so do experiment with what's in your garage and find a personal favourite.
The best-handling car in the class is the Lotus 340R, but this tiny track toy has a low top speed so is suitable for short tracks only. Our all-rounder pick is the Subaru Impreza 22B STI from 1998.
By rally car, we mean the best Forza Horizon 4 dirt car - the best car for taking on rough or loose track surfaces. We're going to focus on S1 class for our pick, though many of these cars start in lower classes and could be successfully modified for A or even B class, too.
You don't have to stick to the rally car classes to get a car that performs well on dirt. Unsurprisingly, some off-roaders do well - the Ariel Nomad is blisteringly quick, if a bit of a handful, or you could use the outlandish Jeep Trailcat with its massive wheels to muscle competitors off the track.
You can even modify some road sports cars into unlikely-looking but competitive S1 dirt racers - including that evergreen Dodge Viper SRT10 2008 and the Porsche Cayman GTS.
We prefer to take to the dirt in something from the golden age of rallying though, and luckily there are plenty of cars to choose from that look the part while being extremely quick. You won't go wrong with any model of Subaru Impreza.
In this section we'll identify the best Forza Horizon 4 cross country car - the best car to use in the cross country series events that take you completely off the beaten track. This time, we're going to focus on A class for our pick, since it's more common in cross country events.
Although it's fun to try all sorts of vehicles on the off road races, when it comes to performance, your choices here are limited. Even rally cars won't handle the bigger jumps and obstacles that well. You need big wheels, lots of suspension travel and lots of ground clearance.
Buggies like the Ariel Nomad and the Alumi Craft are great on the tighter courses but suffer from a lack of speed, so for all-round performance you need to look at SUVs and off road trucks.
If you prefer to rock a Chelsea tractor, then the Porsche Macan Turbo 2015 is probably your best bet in the Sports Utility Heroes class. But our pick for cross country races is actually America's workhorse - the Ford F-150 Raptor 2017 pickup truck.
Drifting is probably the most demanding discipline in Forza Horizon 4, both in terms of driver skill and car setup. Although you can find all sorts of unlikely vehicles modified for drifting in the tune store, the truth is that you can't beat a bespoke drift car.
So, in the spirit of accessibility, let us instead recommend the Hoonigan Ford Escort RS1800 1978, which can be bought without breaking the bank from the showroom or auction house and has racked up some respectable scores in its time.
That said, when it comes to topping the leaderboards, some cars do stand out from the crowd - and sad to say, none is that easy to get. The consensus in the community is that nothing is faster than the Shelby Monaco King Cobra - but this is a DLC car.
If you don't mind shelling out, or have an edition of the game with the Car Pass included, this should be your pick. Next fastest is probably the Porsche 906 Carrera 6, but this reward car rarely appears on the auction house.
So for a great all-purpose drag car with a halfway sensible price tag, our choice is the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Forza Edition, a reward car which can be found on the auction house for under a million credits.
It will even drag race pretty well in its stock tune, which has almost 1700 horsepower! For maximum performance, use II Stigz II's '7.140 DRAG (ACS)' tune, though you will need to learn the auto clutch slip technique to use it properly (via APEX Predator on YouTube - link to the clutch technique in the description).
Forza Horizon 5 plays host to numerous racing disciplines - road racing, rally, street racing, cross country, and stunts, to name a few. Another form of racing that receives greater attention in the series' newest entry is drag racing, with numerous drag strips all over the map.
Drag races are unique in that no real steering is required, so you can forget handling and off-road and just focus on putting as much power into your car as possible. There are two stages to this - building the car and tuning it. This guide will walk you through both so you can squeeze the best possible performance out of your car in a drag race.
The actual choice of car doesn't really matter, since in single-player your opponents match your car type and ranking, and online matchmaking still accounts for class - just try to build your car in such a way that its PI ranking ends up at or near the top of the class. If you're just drag-racing friends in the open world with no restrictions, pick something fast and powerful to really get the upper hand.
As for upgrades, launch and acceleration are your biggest priorities, followed by speed. You can pretty much ignore handling, braking, and off-road, since they have little to no bearing on a drag race. The biggest upgrades to look out for are drag tyres, and widening whichever tyres your car uses to accelerate (rear for RWD, all for AWD; FWD isn't really great for drag racing so perhaps look at conversions if your car is FWD at stock).
Another good option is rally suspension. This may seem confusing at first, but it gives you a higher ride height, which reduces your downforce (downforce is vital for ordinary racing due to the handling power it gives, but again, you can ignore handling for drag racing). The higher you are off the ground the, greater boost you'll see to speed and acceleration. Another part you should grab is a transmission that'll unlock gear tuning, since that'll be a key part of this whole process' latter half. Similarly, if you're using an AWD car, a differential to unlock full diff tuning could also be a good idea.
Then, just go through each option and add anything that boosts acceleration and launch, and speed as well if it's possible. There's no one magic option that'll work for everything, since it varies greatly from car to car - the stock parts might even be the best option on some high-end cars - but just pay attention to what each part will do and you'll be fine.
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