Starting June 18 at 2:30 PM UTC, Horizon Decades celebrates iconic cars from years gone by with a new Festival Playlist series.
Forza Horizon 6 Turns Back the Clock With "Horizon Decades"
Playground Games is dusting off the classics. Starting Thursday, June 18 at 2:30 PM UTC, Forza Horizon 6 kicks off its second Festival Playlist series, called Horizon Decades, and the pitch is pure nostalgia. As the studio put it in its announcement, "It's time to rewind the clock and celebrate some of the most iconic cars of the years that have passed us."
The season runs four weeks and brings three cars that have never appeared in a Horizon title before, along with a temporary Car Meet at the Hokubu Time Attack Circuit. Four more vehicles join the Car Pass garage, and there's a fresh set of Badges to chase.
That Car Meet is more than a backdrop. It's part of what Playground calls the Evolving World, set up at Hokubu with its own parking area and Horizon Decades branding. Because Car Meets live in the game's Shared World, you can just drive up and join in. As the studio describes it, they're "a great way to meet new players and start a Convoy before heading out into the open world together."
For longtime fans, the bigger headline is the return of The Trial. The co-op championship is back on the Festival Playlist as a "6v6, best of three racing showdown," though there's a catch: access is locked to Horizon Legends who've earned their Gold Wristband. So if you haven't put in the hours, you're sitting this one out.
The reward lineup leans hard into rarity. There are 10 Series Reward cars up for grabs, headlined by some seriously exclusive metal, like the 1993 Porsche 911 Turbo S Leichtbau, of which Playground notes "just 86 pieces" were ever built. Others include the 1988 Lamborghini Countach LP5000 QV, the road-legal 1993 Schuppan 962CR, and the 1998 TVR Cerbera Speed 12, which the studio cheekily calls "the impossible car that was too crazy to function." The points requirements scale up across the season, with the ultra-exclusive 2018 Lotus Exige Cup 430 demanding a full 160 points to unlock.
There's also a new long-haul reward system debuting here. Series History Rewards hand out exclusive cars based on your lifetime Playlist Points, and the first is the 1972 Mazda Cosmo 110S Series II, earned by racking up 500 points across your entire playtime. The first real shot at it won't come until Series 3.
On the Car Pass side, four new vehicles roll out weekly, starting with the 2023 Audi R8 Coupé V10 GT RWD on June 18 and wrapping up with the 2023 Toyota GR Corolla on July 9. The drift crowd gets a treat in between with the 1974 Mazda Mad Mike 808 Wagon "FURSTY," a four-rotor wagon "made to leave the smell of burnt rubber behind as it drifts."
Looking ahead, Playground also teased Series 3, an Italian Exotics update built around "some of the most breathtaking Italian cars," bundled with a free Italian Passion Car Pack for Premium Edition owners.
Forza Horizon 6 is out now on Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam and the Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass. A PS5 version is set to follow later this year. Horizon Decades runs four weeks beginning June 18.
Source: Playground Games, "Drive Decades of Iconic Cars in Forza Horizon 6," Forza.net, June 16, 2026.