Company: FWDI
Filing Date: 2025-09-18
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001683168-25-007107
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Company: Forward Industries, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-18
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 18, 2025</div>

Registration No. 333-253461

<div align='center'>UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM S-8

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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>

| FORWARD INDUSTRIES, INC.                               |
| (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) |

| New York                        |     | 13-1950672          |
| (State or other jurisdiction of |     | (I.R.S. Employer    |
| incorporation or organization)  |     | Identification No.) |

| 700 Veterans Memorial Highway, Suite 100            
 Hauppauge, New York 11788                           |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code) |

| Forward Industries, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive 
 Plan                                           
 Forward Industries, Inc.                       
 2011 Long Term Incentive Plan                  |
| (Full title of the plan)                       |
| Kathleen Weisberg                              
 Chief Financial Officer                        
 700 Veterans Memorial Highway, Suite 100       
 Hauppauge, New York 11788                      |
| (Name and address of agent for service)        |

| (631) 547-3055                                                |
| (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) |

<div align='center'>Copy to:

Brian Bernstein, Esq.

Nason, Yeager, Gerson, Harris & Fumero, P.A.

3001 PGA Boulevard, Suite 305

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33410</div>

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated
filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated
filer,” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer ¨ | Accelerated filer ¨         |
| Non-accelerated filer þ   | Smaller reporting company þ |

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant
has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant