Forza Horizon 5 Drifting: a Beginner's Guide

Not sure where to start with your Forza Horizon 5 drift builds? Let's talk you through how we put together a drift tuning from scratch.

Here's a quick guide to the basics.

Why tune your own drift car?

The main reason you want to create your own drift tuning is that you can tweak it to your liking. If you use someone else's tuning, it will be locked and you'll be unable to make the small changes that can get your car perfect for a particular drift zone.

You'll also find that a lot of drift tunings are created for beginners, with the gearing set up to stay in the one gear for the whole run or the brakes set up with ABS in mind. If you're driving without these assists, you'll likely find tuners such as KenBlocksSohn aren't creating the sorts of builds that suit you.

Picking the right car

For this guide, we're going to go rear-wheel drive and keep horsepower comparatively low. It's easy enough to spin all the wheels on an all-wheel drive car with enough power and torque, but that’s not what this guide is about.

So let's filter our car collection to rear-wheel drive cars (you can do this in your garage by pressing the button allocated to Filter, which is Y on the Xbox) and then look through for something around the B class.

We'll also want a front-engined car here, which tend to have a better weight distribution for getting the rear loose but keeping it under control.

I've picked the 2000 Nissan Silvia Spec-R, which is a popular car for this sort of build. We'll then need to go to the Festival and into the Custom Upgrade menu. We’ll also check in the Settings that we have turned off Traction Control, Stability Control, ABS, and we’ll select Manual with Clutch gears.