Forza Horizon 3 adds XR8 and Pursuit Ute..

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"We’ve long been of the opinion that the Horizon offshoot of the Forza series is Xbox’s NASA-grade simulation kicking back and letting its hair down. Sort of like running into Brian Cox wearing board shorts and waving a Piña Colada around.

Forza Horizon 3’s recent officially released list of 181 cars, just over half the total of 350 that will feature in the game, does nothing to disabuse us of that notion. We’ve already had a taste of some of the vehicles on offer, including the Ariel Nomad and a Lamborghini Centenario, but this new list does justice to the game’s antipodean setting by serving up some metal that’s uniquely Aussie in spirit.

Cars like the 2014 Ford Performance Vehicles Limited Edition Pursuit Ute, which is the front of an Aussie muscle car with a cargo tray bolted to the rear, in this case powered by a 422hp supercharged 5.0-litre V8. Not bad for something that could double as a jacuzzi in a pinch, though it’s not clear precisely what you’d be pursuing in it, beyond a new set of rear tyres and a driving ban.

For those after the same lump in a more conventional package, there’s the 2015 Ford Falcon XR8, which borrows more from Ford’s current design language and looks positively refined by Aussie V8 standards. And by refined, we mean ‘a bit like an angry Mondeo’."