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The Ultimate Icon

The Ultimate Icon

Become the Ultimate Icon

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How to unlock the The Ultimate Icon achievement in Need for Speed - Definitive Guide

You get the chance to become the Ultimate Icon after you have become the Icon for everything else by getting 100% on all 5 story arcs. (Outlaw, Speed, Style, Build and Crew).

Upon 100% completing all 5 story arcs you will get a call from "Robyn (Crew)" who invites you to a 2 lap, 15 mile race against your entire crew, Manu, Spike, Amy, Robyn and Travis. You must finish top 3 in this race!

Upon completing this race, Robyn will call you again but this time with a 20 mile long sprint race in mind. This is against your crew again, plus all of the Icons you have "dethroned". You have to win this 11 participant race to continue.

After completing the sprint, Travis will call you, and invite's you to the club (garage). Upon arriving the final cutscene will play, and this achievement will pop while the final credits are rolling.

Edit: Spilner commented saying if it doesn't pop during the credits sequence you can skip and it will pop while in the garage afterwards.
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29 Oct 2015 21:47

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This game is so gay. I like a challenge but this is hardly challenging. The car handling is just stupid, crashing is retarded. I actually manage to crash by hitting nothing but air. The friendly AI doesn't make any sense. Traffic falls out of the sky in you're driving Lane, try to avoid it with 230mph. That blue line that's supposed to show the ideal driving Lane is just cheating and confusing, it only makes you take off ramps and wrong turns. And I can go on for a while. I did like this game at first but after playing for a while I find it a very hasty produced game. This game needed a lot more work before being released.

To get on topic... I used the setup with the aventador mentioned by: "Xc Livewire cX" a few posts higher.
After trying many times and getting a bit lucky I finally managed to get it done.
One advice, even when crashing multiple times, just keep going. The ai crashes too, as long as you see them on the minimap you can still catch up to them. They tend to take the corners slowly, especially near the end of the race... Good luck on this shitty frustrating annoying race!
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By SHOTOKANKATANA on 24 Feb 2016 21:14
My trial cut out in the final sprint cry
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By Chunkeh Munkeh on 29 Oct 2015 23:41
Unlucky man. I beat it just by around 13 minutes.
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By I Am Twistah#216 on 30 Oct 2015 08:04
Won the very last race a few hours ago and achievement didn't pop.. I have no idea to fix this shit :-((
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By einbrecher87 on 13 Nov 2015 21:37
It's an Xbox issue not a game issue...wait until live is running properly and hope it pops.
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By Chunkeh Munkeh on 13 Nov 2015 23:32
Something to add, since the achievement didn't pop for 30 or so seconds I skipped the credits and it popped in the garage, so if you want to you can skip the credits.
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By Spilner on 15 Nov 2015 16:09
thanks for the tip. works flawlessly!
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By RoboTicS83 on 18 Nov 2015 07:06
13 minutes!! Wtf, I just tried it, finished 3th with 10 minutes. This game is broken man
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By KetchupOnVenus on 02 Dec 2015 17:42
Yeah I know how to get this achievement, but what car do I use?
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By FireWheels58 on 10 Dec 2015 16:30
Personal preference, I used a fully upgraded Evo if that helps.
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By Spilner on 11 Dec 2015 06:10
I didn´t get the achievement, while the EA Network was not connect at the moment when is had to pop.
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By Samuraikoenig on 26 Dec 2015 13:13
I finished the race in 9 minutes 10 seconds. I also used the Ferrari F40 maxed out for my level of 47. It's a very fast car that can reach 234mph very fast and easy and handles like a beauty.
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By Gimpy Turnip on 29 Dec 2015 11:52
I get under 9:30 but still 5th... WTF?
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By Neophyte Hybrid on 09 Feb 2016 16:22
Mine says "Done...Unlocking" It's my last achievement to finishing the main game :(. Few hours later and it still hasn't popped
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By Germania123 on 21 Feb 2016 02:41
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By Spilner on 21 Feb 2016 02:48
Thanks Spil!
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By I Am Twistah#216 on 21 Feb 2016 14:56
Man, this achievement was killing me. Just got with a time of 9:30 and a few inches ahead of the competition. The AI was just driving next to me. I hate this rubberbanding.

I won this race with a fully tuned supra, I always chose the tuning parts that gave the car faster acceleration. Check your stats when applying them. I also noticed that some E parts don't always gave more acceleration. This isn't the case with all cars but don't just buy without a quick look at the stats. The rest of my finetuning was comparable with the lambo. Except for the nitro this was at max power for exiting one of the last corners and getting a huge boost. Good luck
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By Neophyte Hybrid on 05 Mar 2016 08:41
This game goes out of it's way to bend you over a table and give you the shaft. The fact it locks up your steering so you can't continue a turn.
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By Shinwasha on 28 Mar 2016 23:23
I think this achievement can be boosted. If you get 4-6 of your friends to join and then block the road for AI's or get them of the road.
What do you think?
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By DieNadel1 on 29 Mar 2016 07:03
Got to the final like 10 or so checkpoints and the blue line suddenly changed and I flew down the wrong road at 200 mph. By the time I stopped to turn I fell to 9th place. Fuck this race.
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By LORDOFDOOKIE69 on 21 Nov 2016 08:25
This is one frustrating race. F40 is definitely the way to go, 9 minutes 43 for me but it wasn't even upgraded much. Won it in the final corner the Ai definitely slows down towards the end
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By Deeeco on 08 Apr 2017 09:08
9:30 and lost to Nakai. His car is just so insanely fast on the highway. I've never seen any of the other drivers after the first corner lol.
9:26 in 2nd race. Lost to Travis. On the last 7KM he was simply gone. He probably finished sub 9:00 lol

I'm faster than any of my friends who already won the race.
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By Gerbasgamer on 14 Jun 2017 18:07
Tried it again after taking like 6 months off. Got to the last 4 checkpoints in 1st place despite crashing maybe 10 times. AI rubberbanded right by me and I lost by a car length.
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By LORDOFDOOKIE69 on 14 Jun 2017 20:55
Legend, cheers mate!
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By Dandoscore on 13 Sep 2021 19:24
the achievement dosent pop , and , rwb . im speed , and these achievement idont know why i finished evry things and dosent pop does anyone hav solution for these , i play on series s
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By s96x on 15 Jul 2022 00:07
Same for me. This didn't pop (all the other story ones did) after winning the race, watching the cutscene and credits and then waiting in the garage. Leaving the garage and restarting the game didn't help either.
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By UnmatchedBrace on 19 Sep 2022 18:03
Didn't unlock for me either gutted about that.
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By BabyishDuck on 04 Mar 2023 17:53
For anyone having issues with this unlocking, what worked for me was skipping the credits and exiting the garage. Once out of the garage I opened the Xbox app and refreshed my achievement list on there and it popped. Hope that helps anyone struggling
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By L3ach11 on 10 Jul 2023 03:23
I didn't get the achievement, maybe my mistake is that I ignored the server maintenance message for 30 minutes during the final race. No manipulations gave success in getting the achievement, all that remains is resetting the progress and re-passing ..
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By JamE5cape on 16 Jul 2023 16:19
I've done this about 10x and I either get wrecked on a median 2-3x a race trying to follow that zig zag blue line and or take a wrong off ramp because the line shifts over so abruptly at over 200 mph and then I have to back track. I've tried the fully upgraded Lambo and fully upgraded Ferrari F40, but I only get a best of 3rd-4th in about 10:30 seconds, this race sucks pure and simple...
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By Xc Livewire cX on 15 Feb 2016 21:40
I finally did it, took about 12 takes with the Lambo. My biggest problem that kept me from winning previously was taking a wrong offramp at high speeds and having to double back but my settings were, (in case it helps anyone), I adjusted the Handling Style towards "grip" one click, Braking Drift assist "on", Drift Stability assist "on", Launch Control "off", Downforce towards more one click, (must have body kit installed), Spring Stiffness and Sway Bars towards "stiff" one click each and Nitrous 3 clicks towards "Power", and used the elite grip tires.
I crashed once or twice and still won by a large margin, maybe they all crashed and got stuck between a box truck and a tree like I normally do, ha...
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By Xc Livewire cX on 15 Feb 2016 22:37
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this is the last race, you will meet all the icons and your friends and you'll have to place 1 of 11 racers to pass it.

i feel like i got very lucky and finished it on my second try, with 9 minutes and 12 sec and driving a chevrolet carrera rsr - upgraded.

the trick is really to know the map and route you are taking, that way you will know which side of road to drive on closest to the next exit, the blue line doesnt really help in curves when you are driving in a high speed.

you don't need an expensive car, upgrading a relayable car is the best way, and youre saving money too.
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19 Oct 2021 14:29

TwistahXD did a guide of this on TrueAchievements:

https://www.trueachievements.com/a209493/the-ultimate-icon-a...
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16 Jan 2017 09:54