Forza Horizon 6 Series 2 Reward Cars: How to Unlock and Claim Every One

The reward cars are the whole reason to grind the Festival Playlist, and Series 2 Horizon Decades gives you 10 of them between June 18 and July 16, 2026. The trick is not just knowing what the cars are. It is knowing the point math, the weekly clock, and the claim step people keep forgetting. Miss the timing and a car you wanted is gone until who knows when.

This guide is about how to actually get them. If you just want the full lineup with names and point costs spelled out by season, my Horizon Decades reward car list has the table. Come here for the strategy.

The two point pools you are filling

Every Series 2 reward car sits in one of two buckets, and they behave differently.

Weekly seasonal cars. Each of the four seasons, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring, hands out two cars: one at 20 points and one at 40 points. Those points reset when the season rolls over, and so do the cars. You get one real-world week per season to bank 40 points, then they are gone.

Series-wide cars. Two cars run the entire month. The 1993 Porsche 911 Turbo S Leichtbau wants 80 points, and the 2018 Lotus Exige Cup 430 wants 160 points. These points accumulate across all four weeks, so you are not racing a single Thursday deadline for them. You are pacing across the month.

That split is the key to not wasting effort. Your weekly job is 40 points for the two seasonal cars. Everything past 40 in a given week feeds the series-wide totals.

The weekly clock you cannot ignore

Seasons roll over every Thursday. Summer started June 18, Autumn flips June 25, Winter on July 2, Spring on July 9, and the whole series closes July 16. When a rollover hits, the two cars tied to the old week vanish from the Playlist and your seasonal point counter resets to zero.

So if it is the back half of a week and you have not grabbed that week’s two cars yet, drop everything and do it. The series-wide Porsche and Lotus can wait, because their points carry over. The weekly cars cannot.

Fastest path to each car

Here is how I clear a week without it eating my evening.

1. Run the Seasonal Championships first. They are the biggest single point chunks on the board, usually enough on their own to clear the 20-point car. The car restriction on each championship also tells you which garage car to pull before you start.
2. Knock out the Weekly Challenge chain. Its steps overlap with stuff you do anyway, smashing boards, winning an event, taking a photo. That chain plus the championships normally gets me to 40 points and both seasonal cars.
3. Do the Treasure Hunt and Photo Challenges for the overflow. The current Summer hunt sits in the Nangan Region treasure hunt and pays 3 points plus 100,000 credits. Those extra points push you toward the 80-point Porsche and 160-point Lotus.
4. Set a Monthly Rivals time once. It runs the full month, not the week, so do it early and let it sit as banked points.

For the 160-point Lotus Exige Cup 430, do not leave it for the final week. It is the single most expensive reward of the series. Chip away at it by overshooting your weekly 40 every week, and you will cross 160 by Spring without a panic grind.

The claim step people skip

Earning the points does not put the car in your garage. You have to claim it.

Open the Festival Playlist menu, find the reward car tile, and confirm you have crossed its point cost. If you have, there is a claim prompt right on the tile. Hit it. The car drops into your garage immediately. I have seen people grind a week, hit 40 points, then close the game without ever tapping claim, and the season rolled over with the car still locked. Points alone are not enough.

Do a claim sweep at the end of every session. It takes ten seconds and it is the difference between owning the car and losing it.

What to prioritize if you only have a little time

If you can only play a few sessions this series, here is the order that gets you the cars worth having:

• The 20-point Volkswagen Rallye Golf (Summer). Cheapest car in the series, one short session.
• The 40-point Lamborghini Countach (Summer). The face of the whole “decades” theme and very gettable early. This is the one most players actually log in for.
• The 40-point Schuppan 962CR (Autumn). A rare road-going Le Mans homologation special. You may never see it in a free playlist again, so treat Autumn week as a must-play.
• The 80-point Porsche 911 Turbo S Leichtbau (series-wide). Steady accumulation, no single deadline.
• The 160-point Lotus Exige Cup 430 (series-wide). Only if you are playing every week. Otherwise skip it without guilt.

Why these cars are worth the grind

Several of these only ever show up as Playlist rewards. In past Forza games, cars locked behind a single series became genuinely hard to get later, trading at a premium on the Auction House once they left the Playlist. The Schuppan 962CR is exactly that kind of car.

The points you earn doing all this also feed your Wristband progression, so grinding reward cars doubles as your climb toward the endgame. If you are still learning how the Playlist itself is structured, read the Festival Playlist guide first, then come back and run the routine above.

Quick answers

Do I need to clear every activity to unlock a season’s cars? No. You need 40 points to claim both that season’s cars. One or two Championships plus the Weekly Challenge chain usually gets you there with room to spare.

Can I still get a car after the week ends? Only the two series-wide cars, the 80-point Porsche and 160-point Lotus, stay available the full month. The weekly 20 and 40-point cars leave with their season every Thursday.

Where do I actually claim the car? In the Festival Playlist menu. Find the reward tile, and once you have crossed its point cost a claim prompt appears on it. Earning the points does not auto-grant the car.

Keep your weekly 40 on lock, claim before you log off, and your Horizon Decades garage fills itself.