The 10 Best Cars In Forza Horizon 5

Cost: 380,000 credits

Performance class: S1 (847)

My stats in Forza Horizon 5 will tell you that the 2014 Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4 is my most-used car. That’s only because I bought it first. The Aventador features the same catlike silhouette as the Huracán but is better in every way that counts, faster in terms of top speed, 0-to-60, and braking efficiency. Plus, it handles like a dream; you barely have to slow down at all for wider turns, and can near-instantly get back up to speed following the sharp ones. Trust me: You cannot go wrong with this marvelous thing. (Bonus points if you drive a wooden model.)

Cost: 500,000 credits

Performance class: S1 (884)

It isn’t a Forza game without a ton of Ferraris. In that regard, Forza Horizon 5 doesn’t disappoint. Personally, I’ve found driving these quintessential supercars—with their pesky real-wheel drive transmissions—is a lot like walking on waxed floors with wool socks. But the F12TDF might be the best Ferrari in Forza Horizon 5, on account of the fact that I can drive it from the start of the race to the end of one without crashing it several dozen times. Pretty car, too.

Cost: 150,000 credits

Performance class: A (767)

The Porsche Panamera isn’t the fastest car in Forza Horizon 5’s roster. It’s not even the fastest Porsche you can buy in Forza Horizon 5’s roster. (That’d be the 2014 Porsche 918 Spyder, which I can confirm also rips.) But some races and events require you to compete with an A-class car, rather than the S1- and S2-class cars that compose the upper echelons of your garage. For those events, you’d be hard-pressed to find a vehicle as fast—or as easy to keep steady—as the Porsche Panamera.

Cost: 1,900,000 credits

Performance class: S2 (966)

If you want to win on the straightaway, get yourself a Koenigsegg. The venerable Swedish supercar company has five vehicles up for sale in Forza Horizon 5, three of which (the 2015 Koenigsegg One:1, the 2017 Koenigsegg Agera RS, and the 2020 Koenigsegg Jesko) feature the highest possible top-speed rating a vehicle can have in the game. I’m partial to the 2016 Koenigsegg Regera, which is marginally slower but also marginally more affordable. Hey, every penny counts!

Cost: 103,000 credits

Performance class: C (548)

Bullitt. The Dukes of Hazzard. The Fast and the Furious. Fast and Furious 6. The Dodge Charger might very well be the most quintessential car in cinema history, appearing in a staggering 78 pages on the Internet Movie Cars Database. (Each page defaults to 30 items.) You’re telling me you don’t wanna take photos of this thing?

Cost: 1,150,000 credits

Performance class: S2 (959)

James Bond, a concept person, famously drives the Aston Martin DB5. But you, a not-concept person, should drive Aston Martin’s ballyhooed concept car. (A concept car typically refers to a vehicle that bucks design convention in spectacular ways while being unavailable for sale to the public.) Yes, the Aston Martin Valhalla was featured in Bond’s latest outing, this year’s No Time To Die, but c’mon, 007 didn’t even drive it. No one did! It just sat there, glorious set dressing for a sumptuous film that cared more about portraying luxury than giving an actual sense of it. The Valhalla deserved better.

Cost: 40,000 credits

Performance class: Irrelevant

As of this writing, Forza Horizon 5’s best investment is a beat-up old Jeep. Yes, the novelty vehicle is slower than a turtle, handles like greased pig, and is vaguely reminiscent of the atrocities of war. But you can unlock a Super Wheelspin—a slots-like mini-game that grants you three randomized prizes, including the potential for rare cars and six-figure credit sums—with just five skill points. Fair trade if you ask me, except that one time I only earned a cumulative 45,000 credits.

Cost: 2,700,000 credits

Performance class: S2 (927)

Full disclosure: I don’t have the Mercedes-AMG One—the Forza Horizon 5’s cover star—in my garage. I’ve only driven it once, during the last stretch of the game’s edge-of-your-seat opening sequence. It was a dream, the thrilling apex of one of the most exciting setpieces in recent memory. As I mentioned on (shameless plug) a recent episode of The Optional podcast, I’ve spent the bulk of my time with Forza Horizon 5 wishing I could replay the intro, or at least recapture the feeling. Now, where can I get 2.6 million more credits...

Cost: 224,000 credits

Performance class: S1 (824)

Most folks will tell you that the McLaren Senna is the best McLaren in Forza Horizon. After all, it was straight-up on the cover of Forza Horizon 4 (and if you played that game, you’ll get one free as a “loyalty reward” in Forza Horizon 5). Purists will tell you it’s the 1997 McLaren F1 GT, because it ran the table on the race circuit last millennium. I, however, will tell you that any of the three Coupé vehicles are the way to go. They’re fast and furious but cost a fraction as much as the marquee vehicles, with the 570S the cheapest. For comparison, the F1 GT has a price tag of 15 million.

Cost: 30,000,000 credits

Performance class: B (637)

This is the most expensive vehicle in the game. That means it’s the best, too, right?

(Note: I haven’t driven the 1965 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe. Despite dozens of hours with Forza Horizon 5, the cumulative total of all the cars in my garage is roughly two-thirds the price of this one.)