I just found out today that the Mazda Furai will be a part of a new jalopnik.com DLC pack that will be available on the 9th.  There is another way to get the Furai if you follow the instructions HERE.  I would love to drive the Furai as soon as its available but unfortunately I am going to be late to the party since my Xbox 360 recently red-ringed!  Bogus!!

It has just been announced that the world famous Nurburgring Grand Prix Circuit AKA “The Green Hell” is coming to Forza Motorsport 3 as DLC on the 9th of this month for a scant 400 Microsoft points!  Anyone down for a 24 hour race on Xbox live??

Turn 10 Studios just dropped a new “Autoweek” car pack (where is the MotorworldHype car pack huh Turn 10? j/k) and it is a pretty fresh line up.  For 400 Microsoft points (about 5 bucks) you get:

2010 Aston Martin One-77
2009 Audi R8 LMS
2009 Audi RS6
2010 BMW Motorsport M6 Coupe
2010 Chevy Corvette Grand Sport
2010 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500
2010 Saleen S5S Raptor
2009 Lotus 2-Eleven
2010 Pagani Zonda R
2010 Porsche Boxter S

Not bad for 5 bucks right?!  I’m looking forward to driving that Pagani Zonda R!

Are you looking for a fun way to make $12,000?  Forza Motorsport 3 and Hyundai just announced an online Championship competition in which the winner takes home a cool $12k prize.  It looks like the structure of the competition will be a hot lap contest using a brand new Hyundai Genesis Coupe GT car designed by Turn 10 Studios.  All you have to do is go to the Xbox Live Marketplace for Forza 3 and you can download a free Hyundai Car pack that includes: the HKS Hyundai Genesis Coupe from SEMA 2008, Rhys Millen’s Red Bull Hyundai Genesis Coupe Formula D car, and the special edition Hyundai Genesis Coupe GT car designed by Turn 10 Studios.

If racing isn’t your strong point and you’re a more artistic person there is a separate video based competition going on at the same time.  Basically you grab one of the Hyundai’s from the free car pack and try to create the most awesome 1 minute video you can and submit it to judges for review.  If your video is chosen as the best one you win a brand new Hyundai Genesis Coupe!  That’s right you can win a real car for wreaking havoc in a virtual one!  The level of badass is off the charts right now! 

So are you game?  Then quit reading and get started! You can check out the details of the hot lap competition here and you can read the details of the video battle here.  Good luck!

Last night RJ and I were invited out to the ID Agency in LA to check out the new Forza Motorsport 3 “Hot Holiday DLC Car Pack“.  There are some pretty fresh cars included in Forza’s latest DLC including the Team Jost Audi R15 TDI (finally!).  I was rocking that on Road America and you can’t touch it in the straights!  I’m so sick of people on Xbox Live picking that damn Peugeot 908!!  But I digress…  We also got to semi-try out the Playseats limited edition Forza Motorsport 3 Racing Seat.  I say “semi” because the $500 Porsche replica Xbox steering wheel at the event was broken in shipping so we all used the controller.  The seat was still pretty comfortable though! 

Anyway the full DLC car pack list is: 2009 #2 Audi Sport R15 TDI,  2010 Nissan GT-R Spec V,  2010 Ferrari 599XX,  2010 Porsche Panamera Turbo,  2009 Aston Martin Racing #007 Lola,  2010 Jaguar XFR,  2010 Lamborghini 670-4 SV,  2010 Mercedes Benz SLR Stirling Moss,  2010 Ferrari 458 Italia,  and 2010 Audi S4

Check out the official trailer and some pics from the event below.

By the time you read this Forza Motorsport 3 would have been available to the public for about 8 or 9 hours.  Which officially means you have no excuse for not having it by now!  However since I’m a reasonable man I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt anyway and tell you that if you have the extra cash you should probably try to pick up the gamestop exclusive limited edition.  For an extra 20 bucks over the $60 price tag you get a limited edition case, a 2GB Forza USB flash drive, VIP Community membership, and some cool DLC like hand picked and tuned cars from the Forza Motorsport 3 staff.  It’s all awesome stuff and worth the extra dub spot.  Stay tuned to our official review of the game.  Yeah, we got it like a week ago…how?…juice baby…juice..

Do you watch G4?  Well, if you don’t you should!  They got a few pretty cool shows, among which is X-Play which is pretty much the Anderson 360 for gamers.  This week they released their review of Forza Motorsport 3.  What did they think?  Check out the vid below.

I just got word that the official car list for Forza Motorsport 3 was just made public by Turn 10 Studios.  One look at this list and I’m already twitching with anticipation for this game!  I was already sold on the demo but knowing that I can drive the Mazda Lola B09/86 ALMS car or the Lamborghini Reventon makes me wish I would have requested a review copy!  But I don’t have that kind of juice yet..but soon…soon…

Tell your loved ones to get ready to clean brain matter off your walls because I am about to BLOW YOUR MIND.  Seriously there is so much blinding awesome in this post that it might burn your corneas..  I follow @Turn10Studios on twitter and they just revealed the greatest thing to happen to racing games since the invention of the steering wheel peripheral!  Amazon.com has put together a  Forza 3 pre-order bundle that includes a racing seat rig, Forza Motorsport 3 (Of course), and the official Xbox 360 licensed wireless steering wheel.  The awesome part is that if you order the three items together they take 50% off the price of the steering wheel.  Oh and the racing seat rig is only $350 bucks!!  I’ve seen similar rigs go for twice as much! 

CORRECTION!: Ok so the first time I wrote this post I thought that when you buy all three you get 50% off the wheel and that would bring the total to about $450 bucks.  However after reading it again I realize that they give you the game FREE when you buy the seat!  So if you already have a wheel for instance just order the seat for $350 and get Forza Motorsport 3 for free!! Or when you order all three, factoring in the discount on the wheel you pay about $392 total before taxes and shipping.  Sorry for the confusion!  That’s what happens when you have a nerd-gasim and read things too fast! 

$392 is still a lot cheaper than some racing seat rigs alone!  I think I just showed you the top of your “non-denominational religiously based holiday” list boys and girls!

I saw this on Xbox live last night and just as I suspected it was already on the interwebs!  This is a freshly released video from Turn 10 Studios showcasing the return of the infamous Fujimi Kaido touge course in Forza Motorsport 3.  Fujimi Kaido was a huge hit in Forza Motorsport 2 so its geat to see it coming back with even more detail than before.  This is an awesome way to spend a few minutes! Check it out below.  Also don’t for get to hit up Xbox Live like NOW-ish because the official Forza Motorsport Demo has just launched!