This is where you’re given the chance to pick a vehicle for the first time, and it’s the origin of my Horizon 5 mantra: Bronco. This is the main hub of the game, and it’s a party atmosphere filled with bright pink signs, crowds of cheering fans and a ceaseless barrage of fireworks, confetti and hot air balloons. They all finally land at the Horizon Festival, a massive music and racing extravaganza held in the Mexico desert.
Finally, the Mercedes-AMG One, a superfast hybrid sports car, finishes the ride by racing an airplane.Įach of the starting vehicles has its own sensibilities and strengths. After a few minutes with that, a 1989 Porsche 911 Desert Flyer parachutes past a herd of flamingos, zooming down forest trails with fantastic handling. (The obligatory, “I like my partners the way I like my SUVs” goes here.)Īnd then the next car drops from the sky - a zippy 2020 Corvette Stingray Coupe that drives much differently than the Bronco, turning on a dime and floating over the road. It moves like a heavy piece of machinery, tilting on quick turns and cannonballing down the road, sturdy yet sensitive. Immediately, you’re driving at high speeds, following a trail down the fiery mountain and getting a feel for the Bronco. Starting the game drops the vehicle out of the plane, parachuting you onto the rim of a snow-capped volcano. Horizon 5 begins with a yellow Bronco Badlands strapped to the floor of a plane, ramp lowered behind it with clear sky soaring by. However, for a multitude of reasons - the global chip shortage, supply-chain slowdowns and the sheer expense of it all - I’m not likely to get my feet on the pedals of a new Bronco any time soon. It’s the first new model in 25 years, it’s styled after the first-generation Bronco that Ford rolled out in 1965, and, best of all, it comes in a cactus gray colorway. Horizon 5 takes place in a fictionalized Mexico, which makes it the perfect stomping ground for the 2021 Ford Bronco, an SUV that I’ve been drooling over for more than a year in real life.
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