Greetings petrol-heads, and grease-monkeys alike!

I'd like to mention this is my first true guide, so if you'd rate and comment on it i'd really be most grateful. If you see mistakes i'll amend them, and make sure its spotless for the next batch of readers. :)

Also i'm constantly learning new things about this game. What works and what doesn't, so on so forth. So expect at least minor updates as information becomes available to me. And if i hear about something from one of you, or someone else, I'll post it in here giving the informant their proper dues.

Update: I have not played the game in quite some time. However the information here is still relevent, and to my knowing up to date. Please feel free to voice any concerns about the age or outdated nature of any information in the comments section.

Yes; Even low level players can make the "Bucks" to buy new cars, and afford to fully tune them!


The quickest easiest way for anyone to make money is landmarks. The icon looks like the Washington Monument, and after you find a data station (Radar Dish), It will show all of them on your map under the "Discovery" section. Each one of these can earn you $2000, and only require you to travel to them and press a total of 2 buttons. So get to sight seeing!



As you can see, there are a ton (249 I think) of Landmarks. Which will net you $2,000 each! Thats alot of starter cash. And its worth while to hop a plane or train to each major city as in each one there is a large cluster of between 10 and 20 landmarks!

Its money just waiting for you!

The second method has been around since closed beta, Its simply to wash, rinse, repeat, the first available escape mission "The get away", or take down mission "Make a Ghost".

I'll link to some other videos below to cover it better.

"The Getaway" Method - $1000 a run
All due credit to video's poster.

"Making a Ghost" Method - $1000 a run
All due credit to video's poster.

While these are solid methods for making some extra cash, we all know this wont be fun nor easy to farm up a couple hundred thousand, much less more than a million with.

Lets move on shall we?

Each time you rank up 10 levels more of these missions are unlocked.
(Atleast to the best of my knowing, i didnt exactly take notice of these till i was level 50.)


A list of personal favorites:
"Flee the country"
Street:LVL10+ Don't Crash - About 50 miles in city and country roads between Detroit, and New York


"Observatory Dash"
Perf:LVL20+ Race - About 20 miles Vs other Perf Spec cars.


"The Fugitive"
LVL30+ Raid - Point A to Point B. No AI. 1 hour timer, Estimated 30 mins to finish.
New York -> Mexico's Border


"Dry Run"
Circut:LVL40-50 Dont crash - About 30 miles in curvy roads.



Roughly $1200-2000 Bucks Per min. depending on the race, and how boldly you drive.

Like the title says, Easy money implies getting Bucks you don't do hardly anything for. Avoiding the obvious random tricks driving.

There is one specific method I know of that simply requires you hold one button down, and every 5 mins or so guide your car back into an area.

SImple as simple. Get a Raid car/truck, not tested with dirt, may work try and see, and goto "The Great Dunes" north of Las Vegas And just south of the Salt Flats. Once there, I personally wedge a bit of an old credit card into my up arrow button on my keyboard to hold it down and thats about it. You correct your car any time you notice its run out of the dunes but oddly enough they seem to enjoy staying in the dunes by themselves and require very little corrections.

The downsides are simply that you never know if you'll get a lot of money or none at all. Sometimes you hit combos that give well over $3K in less than a min. Other times you'll see combos go by for as little as 70$. I do suggest you also try and keep the car on an eastern/western heading as north and south the dunes are a bit flat and you won't get good jumps.

I can say i've made 100K an hour watching TV on my other monitor while i play. While at the same time a friend made 75K in that same time. Again its highly variable. But could you really complain about free money?

So, you're out of landmarks, and/or you have farmed "The Getaway" / "Making a Ghost" so many times your eyes are about to start bleeding and fall out. You want something much more productive for your time. Alright, I can help you there.

This method makes up to approximately $613,998 Bucks Per Hour (Bph) in the perfict world with no failures or distractions.
It also requires that you
A) Are Max level
B) Are Perked properly
C) Have atleast 3 crew mates

Otherwise it will make you up to about $320,000 Bph. At max level.
Its not that useful until your 30-40+ or so as the money made is highly dependant on your level.

So, in truth what can an average person expect? Most likely about $3,000 a min/ $180,000 Bph. Thats doing 2 drifts at $1,500 each in an average min. If your doing it with a friend you can almost double that to about $5,000 a min if you keep good scores togeather.

One word: Drifting.
You heard me right, Drifting.

Its not that hard, and it can be done on keyboard or controller no problem, though may give you a workout on a wheel after an hour.

Location:
The Bonneville Salt Flats, just north of Las Vegas in the Mountain States region. I suggest lower level players simply take a plane or train to get near it first. It costs all of 1000$ at -most- and will be rewarded with an abundance of use latter.


Vehicle: Choose your weapon!
I recommend you take any car your comfortable with.
I personally suggest the Dirt Spec Jeep, Dirt Skyline, or Street Mini-Cooper if your a pre-order player.


Settings:
I highly suggest in the Jeep, and Skyline you set the transmission to manual and use second gear. And in the Mini-Cooper, Set it to manual and use third. Q Downshifts, and E Upshifts.

I also suggest that if your having trouble getting the drift started, you turn down driving assistance and or turn down steering speed factor. I personally run sport for a dirt spec jeep, or hardcore for a Cooper. (Controller and Wheel users, you may want to also turn speed factor all the way down since its designed for keyboards.)

Perks:
Potential Spoiler: If your worried about seeing or learning of higher level contacts or perks, don't bother with this section until you're in The South.

The main perk of this is "Daredevil" from Alita. It adds a 10% bonus to stunts.

Warning! The picture may be a spoiler for people who are not maxed out as it show all your final contacts and all their perks!
<-Hovor mouse here to see picture.

The Method:
The trick is to get upto speed before starting a drift at near 80-90 MPH (135Kph). Once at speed, the Jeep and Cooper tend to not need a nudge, but some cars may require you to steer hard one way then whip the back end arround hard by holding the other way. With the Cooper and Jeep, just holding left or right about 1-2 seconds is more than enough to get the car into a nice drift.

The main objective is to get 2 "Epic Drifts" in a row without having (0 Boring) Pop up between them. If boring pops up after your first one, it nukes 0.1 of your multiplyer per time. So after just one slip up you'll only get 1.9X reward instead of 2.

in the picture you can see I'm at 443$ after just my first epic drift, I then whip the car the other direction after epic and start a new drift.

The car may slow way down but as long as you keep your speed over about 25-30Mph(45-50Kph) your fine.
The Drift Levels go Drift>Good Drift>Cool Drift>Great Drift>Awesome Drift>Epic Drift>Bored each one adding more value until you hit boring which will really hurt your final score. Though it is worth while to note that hitting boring at 2.0X Multiplier wont effect you at all.

Friends, with benefits!
No, not that kind.
But still almost as good.

If you are within roughly 100 yards of a crew member, you gain an additional 0.5X multiplier to all tricks. The key is to end your trick near them. The multiplier only matters when finishing the tricks.

Proper Form:
A tip on getting a good drift that dose not eat your speed and wont send you spiraling out of control is the "3 line" approach.

As you drift, all 4 of your tires will leave a line in the sand. At one point the front tire on the outside edge of the drift/turn will line up with the opposing side's rear tire and form one line thus making 3 lines in the sand. Holding this line will leave you right on the edge of the drift, allowing you to slip out quickly once you see Awesome, And then Epic sneak up on you, to avoid hitting the Boring level and blowing about $250-$500.

Its come to my attention, that 90% of other players, at least the ones I have had unfortunate dealings with, are more than intent on smashing into you as if the game was instead "Bumper Car Simulator 2015".

This is of course undesirable since it damages your ride, costing you money, and also destroys your concentration, and or your trickline, and in some, if not most cases even removes modifiers from your end result even if you only tap them.

The best way I have found to deal with this is to simply teleport to your HQ and back. If nothing else it should put you in another shard/server. The odds of getting in the same one, with as popular as the flats tend to be, are fairly slim.

A further word of advice, don't antagonise others. Its not only rude its bad sport if you're trying to make money. The old saying goes "Don't sh*t where you eat."


So your skeptical just drifting can make almost a half million in an hour, when all mission oriented methods take about $8,000-$10,000 or so per 10 mins at best?
Lets break it down then!

Time:
Lets get our most widely known parameter out of the way. Time.
The time breaks down like so: 3,600 Seconds in an hour, 20 seconds to complete one drift.

Thats 3600/20 =180 drifts per hour

Money:
At 886$ per "Double Epic" drift, plus the multiplier of 3.5X for being near 3 crew mates comes out to 3,101. Then add our 10% additional from perks for $3,411.1

Thats 886*3.5+10%=$3411

Valued Time:
Finally lets value the time by multiplying our 180 drifts per hour by the $3,411 per drift. 180*$3,411=$613,998 Bph

Final Results:
Perfect World Scenario
So it would look like: (3,600/20)*(886*3.5+10%)=$613,998 Bph

No Crew
With no Crew Mates The equation takes grim turn towards $1750,000 Bph as seen in the following equation.
(3,600/20)*(886+10%)= $175,428 Bph

Realistic Scenario
Ok, we know the world dose not conform to statistics so vehemently as theory would like.
No crew, And averaging 30 seconds per drift to account for stoppages, interruptions and possible greifing what can we expect?

(3,600/30)*(886+10%)= $116,952Bph

I will be using most, but not all, of our contributors contributions. The more detailed and descriptive your helping hand the more likely I will use it in the list.

But thank you, for any contribution large or small!

Suggestions By - Dash Cake

Originally posted by Dashcake:

[First Post]:
ways for less skilled players at level 50 (with Perk Bonuses) :3

pvp= 18000 in 5 Minutes (3600 Bucks per Minute / 216,000 Bucker per Hour )

Coast to Coast +1 Hour Race= 88000 in 47-48 Minutes (1872 Bpm / 112,320 Bph )

White Mountain Loop= 8800 in 4-5 Minutes (2200 Bpm / 132,000 Bph )

[Second Post]:

I forgot to add the extra waiting time in PVP in the Lobby :I

[Third Post]:
If youre good in street spec cars and police chases you can do the St. Louis Setup(8800 with perk bonus), it takes around 1-2 Minutes to complete (6600 Bpm / 396,000 BpH)

[Fourth Post]:
The Fugitive (1h) +1 hour race= 88000 in 30 minutes (2933 Bpm / 176,000 Bph)

Confirmed.

Average wait of between 5-15 mins for PVP depending. At Least in my own trials of this.

Suggestions By - David Kolář

Originally posted by David Kolář:

The easiest way is send friends to faction mission. Your friends does not need to do mission. It is like tapping games, farmville, for example. Just send friends to faction missions tha ttook over and hour - your AI friend will do it 3 hours, you will get 16 000$ for each one. You can have about 10 missions at one time, so it is 160 000$ per 3 hours. Best of all? You and your friend does not need to be in game. You can just close it and come back in 3 hours or more to collect reward and do it again. Just click on Faction mission on map, choose Send friends, pick 1 friend on level 50 (higher change of successfulness) and done.

Confirmed.
Worth noting though, you may not want to put more than 2 points into the spec that lets you send more people into mission, as at 50 2 people almost always have 100% chance of sucess.

Suggestions By - wolfe

Originally posted by wolfe:

[First Post]:
I prefer doing the jumps on the broken highway in The Keys in Miami. If you string them together correctly, you can get 6k per run through it. Once you reach the last jump you can just turn around and go back, netting another 6k. Doing that over and over gives you a huge amount of money, plus its more fun then doing drifts in the flats. I'm to lazy to calculate BpH/M, so yeah. It's a lot though.

[Second Post]:
So I decided to calculate it myself, I ended up getting 3528 BpM or 211700 BpH, it seems to be a little faster then everything else, but not as boring as drifting in the salt flats all day (thats of couse, my opinion, so.) However, I ended up getting a perfect run in the end, no messups and perfect combos. If you were to do a perfect run 100% of the time you would get around 4975 BpM or 298500 BpH. So it's not bad for making money, plus it helps complete the jump awards quite quickly.

[Third Post]:
Ah I think I forgot to mention that you need to drift and collide into fences/signs in order to combo them, it shouldn't slow you down much but ye. That's how you string them together xP

Simi-Confirmed.
It is there, but in my run I only made about 500$-$1000 per jump and it took me about 1.5-2 mins to do all 7/8 jumps, and none of them chained together. Results may vary.

Test was done in a LVL:1299 Spec:C Mclaren 12C. And since they didn't chain together it seems I always missed 1-2 jumps because it was still 'restarting' the trick counter. So I'd say its close to maybe 1500 BpM for me. Still respectable though!

I should mention two things. There is a chance for failure, if you miss your landing you'll be in the water and often it puts you on the wrong road making you fast travel back to a start point to start the string all over again. There is also a Jump Skill Mission on the path that both messes with your run, and often has multiple people, farming it for tires, who you may mess up in turn.

Suggestions By - Chromfell

Originally posted by Chromfell:

Another good way for any RAID-Driver is "Way out West" - Escape Mission, takes about 2 minutes and gives 8000 bucks. Pretty alright if you ask me.

Confirmed.
Some methods have you go off road and up the hill side directly to your left as you start. I personally never got that path to work; but it seems like it could be a fairly easy source of money depending on driver's skill level. With or without any 'shortcuts' or special methods.

Suggestions By - Ideal Logic

Originally posted by Ideal Logic:

I just made an Unnofficial "Add Me" Thread for those who want others to play with or send on faction missions.

Confirmed.
Yep, confirmed, can add people, can click links, and can make money off adding friends. Thats my work for the day.

Suggestions By - Gorreci

Originally posted by Gorreci:

If people are still reading this guide, "The Fugitive" faction mission reward has been doubled. I consistently finish my runs in under 28 minutes, and I don't even have a maxed out Raid Spec. Most fun way I've found, personally, to make money. I love the long drives. Don't know how long this will last though. Get it in before they change it back.

Suggestions By - MadeOfMetal

Originally posted by MadeOfMetal:

one i have been doing (have no idea what the BPM/BPH is but i run a 30k faction mission ( Leaving LA mission ) that takes less than 12 min to complete and its a guaranteed 30k for top 3 placement and its not that hard. i ran that to buy the Ferrari F40 and used the Lambo Gallardo Spyder at 1290 to complete it over and over. so far its the fastest Faction mission i have found as of 7/14/2016

Suggestions By - Papa Bless

Originally posted by Papa Bless:

If you gave a circuit car with all platinum 50 parts and cosmetic parts unlocked, than the Highway Child faction mission is actually a great way to make money. I did the whole race in about 50 minutes and the mission gives 160k, plus another 160k from smart loot because it has nothing else to give you. This should be around 320k BPH depending on how fast you do the race.

There might be a flaw here though, I've never tried to grind it for money

Sorry for the Continuation, but the last section hit it's text limit.

Suggestions By - FIGJAM!

Originally posted by FIGJAM!:

Post 1:It's actually random loot reward. Even if you have all cosmetic parts and platinum 50 parts, you still get another random platinum part.

I wouldn't grind 1 hour missions because it's random loot. You can try with "The point of no return" mission. Takes 2-2.5 minutes. You get 8K bucks + 8K bucks from loot. That's 16K for 2-2.5 minutes. In 5 minutes you get 32K. Out of my last 5 runs, got bucks bonus 3 times. So, it's not bad at all if you are looking to collect some quick cash.

Post 2: Update:

10 x "The Point of No Return" mission runs

Rewards:
6 x bucks bonus = 6 x 8000 = 48000.
4 x parts.

Time taken: less than 30 minutes. 2-3 minutes/per run.
Bucks earned: 80000 + 48000 = 128000 in 30 minutes.

____

10 x "Let It Snow" mission runs

Rewards:

5 x bucks bonus = 5 x 4000 = 20000.
5 x parts.

Time taken: 10 minutes. 1 minute/per run.
Bucks earned: 40000 + 20000 = 60000 in 10 minutes.
(average you should be getting 180000 in 30 minutes)

Let It Snow is easy money and quick to grind.

Enjoy.