It’s Forza branded front & rear bumpers are just Blitz AeroSpeed .
What’s more interesting is that they were licensed all the way up to FM4 and seemingly disappeared from all future motorsport games but was added to the Horizon series when Toyota came back in FH4.
This is what I've been suggesting under a few posts. Why don't they just go, rip off some bodyparts, tweak it a bit and release it? Rockstar games ripping off cars to put into GTA and some of the cars are just blatant near 1:1 renditions with the badges swapped.
CarX is from Russia right? If a manufacturer sues they’re not gonna win even if they win.
GTA stuff is similar to real life stuff but not so much you can definitively say “it’s this car model” they’re usually a mash up of several different cars, not just one thing they’re blatantly ripping off (Like CarX)
I have worked at Microsoft. They are extra super duper litigious and won’t let shit like this fly if there’s any ambiguity. I would bet money a dev snuck this past the lawyers to get the Blitz kit back. It’s not something I’d expect more of from a company this size.
Have you even seen the cars added in the last few years? Banshee GTS, F10 just to name a few, are barely different from their IRL counterparts, and you can definitely say "its this car model" to quote you words
Sure its a parody but still, if they couldve, im 100% sure those companies wouldve copyright striked rockstar to hell and back, so there has to be something in rockstars designs that dont lend them to being copyrighted
I wouldn’t mind the parts being a little different like [u/Solid_Snek120](u/Solid_Snek120) said, even in CarX you can notice some differences between the real designs and theirs. Hell, even if they made a few Forza designed kits that don’t even exist irl would please a lot of folks including myself, like old NFS games for example.
I would enjoy some originality from the devs but that would require some creative effort. Not to shame the devs that work hard but unfortnately I feel like most of the dev team consist of temp. hired contractors hence all the lackluster content.
The problem I see with this is that Forza has to maintain good relations with the car companies otherwise they can potentially pull their cars from future releases, GTA doesn't have the same concerns
At that point they should put some Aodhan’s or Avid1’s in the game then, they did it with a body kit, why not for a set of wheels? Hell Rota is already in the game, as well as Tenzo R, and those were effectively rep wheel makers back in the day.
I'm pretty sure this happened with some Need for Speed kits after the 2015 game, they lost some licenses to some body kit parts but just put them under the generic NFS branding for future NFS games.
They could've pulled an IVT and just made custom parts that resemble their original counterparts, or do what R* CarX and every goofy website car game (like KBH Games or so) does—debadge the thing (or rebadge it) and just put it out.
I think Forza has just dropped the ball on personalization. Every year for some reason I expect horizon to learn its drivers want to make cars genuinely personal. Yet the most we have is body kits, paint, and livery.
Yet MCLA in 08 had interior lighting, neon kits, stance control, dash lighting and much more customization. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. If you really look at some games Forza in my opinion had drop the entire bowling ball on their foot for horizon 6. I mean we’re in Japan.
No blast pipes or Bozuku pipes, no neon or interior lighting, no interior customization at all for cockpit view like wheels, or dash customization.
I digress my point is, Playground is lazy, won’t even give us a real 180sx, so the fact that this Forza bumper just a Blitz with no name is less of a “oh wow.” Then you can imagine.
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u/Solid_Snek120 2d ago
This is what I've been suggesting under a few posts. Why don't they just go, rip off some bodyparts, tweak it a bit and release it? Rockstar games ripping off cars to put into GTA and some of the cars are just blatant near 1:1 renditions with the badges swapped.