FH5, Fast and Furious DLC

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And the other guys.

Yes, I bought the Fast and Furious DLC. If you haven’t, if you’re dithering, don’t bother. Fanboys only, I’d say.

I tried the cars stock in free roam, tuning what could be tuned.

Dodge Charger Hellcat Redeye. Tuning 1/9; car masteries: mostly rubbish (Street Scene and drifting). No engine swaps. Overpowered, terrible handling. Back end wants to be the front, or the car wants to understeer or understeer and slide. Feels floaty.

The Flip Car might be redeemable. 6.5 for tuning (the 0.5 is rear aero), and the car has a 200% race bonus. Three-speed gearbox and in spite of it being all frame and no trousers, it’s still 1,882kg. Good steering, but not bulletproof.

The Dodge Charger (1970). Tuning 4.5/9 (0.5 because the final drive can be tuned). Has masteries for dirt and drag racing (why are all antique muscle cars in the game meant to be dirt racers? Domestic American racing scene?) Much the same as the Hellcat – overpowered, understeery, slidey, unstable.

Datsun 240Z. Tuning 4/9 and bland car masteries. Slightly better handling than the Dodges and might be rescued with upgrades and tuning.

Chevrolet Impala. Tuning 2.5/9. Masteries are nothing to write home about. Three-speed gearbox. On a par with the Dodges.

As for the other guys, I have the credits and bought them because if FH4 is anything to go buy, it might be a very long time before any of these turn up in a wheel spin or SWS, or they turn up as reward cars for seasonals and other playlist events. They all come with SWSs.

The Aston Martin DBR1 needs upgrading and tuning, but as far as I recall it from FH4, it’s all right.

The Ferrari 512 S, which should’ve been in the game from day 1 (ditto all of these cars), is a decent old banger once it’s been upgraded and tuned. I have a certain fondness for this car because it was one of the cars that I drove a lot when I started racing in cockpit view in FH4.

The Jaguar C-Type is much like the DBR1. It also has a 200% race perk.

The Porsche 906 Carrera is the best of the bunch out of the box.

The Fast and Furious DLC seems to be a cash grab that includes nothing that really redeems it. I wonder whether the Fast and Furious franchise is a little dated and tired, and the target demographic has perhaps moved on. The copy-and-pasted cars from FH4 seem to be intended to provoke another cash grab from disgruntled players who don’t have the credits but do have the credit cards.

I managed to get snaps of quite a few of the new cars, although the Valkyrie, the T.50, and several of the track toys refused to come out and play.

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