Forza Horizon 6 has its own community villain in the form of a driver who's griefing everyone across Japan

Forza Horizon 6 players finally have a community villain that's best described as Let Me Solo Her's evil twin: a driver who's been griefing people up and down the racing game's open world, and is so prevalent that they've transcended into the realm of internet myth.

Over the last week, players online have noticed that a driver called bowieknife99 has been causing some serious damage. Whether it's in online races or solo ones that match you up with drivatars - computer-controlled versions of real players trained off their driving behaviours - bowieknife99 is seemingly on every street corner.

Multiple clips have since gone viral showing the evil festival goer crashing into players mid-race, easily securing wins, and leading races in vehicles that have no business beating the most lux machines on the Forza Horizon 6 car list. One video below even shows a mid Honda beating a 787B.

My favorite comes in the video embedded below and sums up what makes bowieknife99 such an absolute menace. A three-wheeled joke car handily outpaces some of the fastest cars in the world in a straight-lined drag race.

While drivatars lightly mimic the real-world people they're based on, usually, I've never seen it go so off the rails in all six Forza Horizon games. They usually bump into you while passing if their real-world counterpart drives a little recklessly, for example, or they might struggle to drift if that's what the data they're trained on suggests. The game's new villain is something else entirely - as if Playground Games have crafted the ultimate, motorized troll.

Whoever bowieknife99 is (a Playground Games employee, or Lewis Hamilton, perhaps), they're not naughty enough to ruin the game. A Baldur's Gate 3 lead even called Forza Horizon 6 a "perfect game" in a struggling industry.

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