◦Limited Edition contents:
◦Forza Motorsport 2GB USB Storage and keychain: Show off your Forza pride with these specially branded items.
◦Forza Motorsport VIP Membership* and Exclusive Car Pack*: Want to be a top painter, tuner, driver or just more active in the community? VIP membership is the way to get yourself noticed. Includes special treatment within the online Auction House, Community Storefront and on the Forzamotorsport.net forums. Also includes 5 of the hottest cars from the roster of Forza Motorsport 3, available only through your VIP membership.
◦Exclusive Collector’s Edition Car Pack*: This one is for the fans. This pack includes 5 cars that have been hand tuned and hand painted by the developers at Turn 10 to fly the Forza Motorsport colors.
◦Exclusive Forza Motorsport 3 Theme:* Customize your Dashboard experience with this limited availability Xbox 360 theme.
◦VIP Membership Exclusive Cars:
◦2009 Aston Martin DBS
◦2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
◦2007 Ferrari 430 Scuderia
◦2007 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera
◦2007 Porsche 911 GT3 RS (997)
Che Team Forza:
The VIP membership that comes with the LCE gets you -- on a very surface level -- 5 of the hottest cars in the game and recognition within the game and on the website that you're a Forza VIP who has purchased the LCE. You guys already know which 5 cars are included in the VIP package. (Above) Recognition in the game and on the site means you'll have a little insignia to tell the world that you bought the LCE.
VIP is also tracked on our servers and I will be working with Fred on creating a bunch of exclusive liveried cars, as well as tuning files, layer groups, and more from the best of the community and gifting them en masse to all VIP members. It'll be like logging in one day and getting cool stuff because you're a VIP. I don't know how often we'd be doing this but it'd be at least once a month and whenever I have cool stuff to share with all our VIP members I'd just drop 'em into your inbox through our servers.
As for that whole cars and tracks rumor, I can't comment on that now but let me just say it won't be limited to VIPs. Everyone will be happy.
Also, the LCE package is very sexy. It's really the DEFINITIVE retail version of the game.
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Once you're a VIP, you're always a VIP. VIP status does not get you free DLC, etc. Not sure where this rumor came from either. You can see the VIP status as just a bonus when you buy a pack of the 5 hottest cars in the game.
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Currently, the only way to get VIP membership is through the LCE. So go pick up the LCE if you want to be a VIP.
◦Exclusive Collector's Car Pack:
◦Audi R8 5.2 FSI Quattro (Forza Motorsport 3 Cover Car)
◦Acura NSX (Forza Motorsport Cover Car)
◦Nissan Fairlady (Forza Motorsport 2 Cover Car)
◦Aston Martin DB9 (Forza Motorsport 2 European Cover Car)
◦2008 Dodge Charger Stock Car (with Xbox 360 livery)
Last but not least, the Forza Community has spoken, dubbing Midland, Michigan USA Forza fan Mark VanDusen II’s custom painted Audi R8 V10 the official pre-order car for “Forza Motorsport 3.” After nearly 300,000 votes were tallied on Xbox LIVE, Justin’s unique design took the checkered flag and will be available as an exclusive download to those who pre-order “Forza Motorsport 3.”