What the actual hell happened? I watched the live stream and thought they cannot be serious.
I am 34, I love Forza Motorsport (3 / 4 mostly), Horizon is alright too, always nice to drive around motorways and fast roads in lots of exotic dream cars. I love Lego Technic also, I love to spend hours building the models (GT3 and Bugatti) and do not mind spending £150-£300 doing so, but these two should not mix, at all. I would love a Lego racer game based on the Forza engine as a separate entity but not as part of Horizon, never mind part of the already paid for Ultimate edition.
Forza fans want to be immersed with cars and car related features, proper garages like Test Drive Unlimited, fuel stations at the side of the road which could be intractable, maybe the addition of police AI which will attempt to chase you for a while (but can be switched off via options), like others stated, multistory carparks, more motorways, longer motorways, a proper airport (a disused WW2 thing doesn't count), some more barn finds. That I would have happily taken as an expansion and paid for it, but Lego, no thanks.
This will be the last Horizon for me, you've lost a sale with the direction you've taken the Forza Horizon series with this.
Avid Forza Racer - Forza Motorsport 3 to Forza Motorsport 7 / Forza Horizon 1 to Forza Horizon 4