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  "description": "Every reward car, point target, and seasonal window in the first four-week Festival Playlist rotation set on the Japan map.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-22T03:14:13.000Z",
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  "textContent": "The Forza Horizon 6 Festival Playlist is the weekly endgame loop that hands out reward cars, credits, and cosmetics for completing races, PR stunts, championships, and other open-world activities. Series 1, titled Welcome to Japan, runs from May 21 to June 18, 2026, and rotates through four in-game seasons that each last seven real-world days.\n\n🏁\n\nQuick answer: Earn 60 points across Series 1 for the 2008 Mazda Furai and 120 points for the 2010 Nissan 370Z. Each weekly season also has its own pair of cars at 20 and 40 points.\n\nImage credit: __Xbox Game Studios (via YouTube/@Forza Clips)__\n\n* * *\n\n### How to unlock the Festival Playlist\n\nThe Festival Playlist menu stays locked until you finish the Horizon Invitational and earn the Yellow Wristband. That event is the first Wristband milestone in the campaign and usually takes about an hour of normal play after creating your character and clearing the qualifying events around Tokyo City.\n\nOnce the Yellow Wristband is in your inventory, the Festival Playlist option appears in the pause menu alongside your World Map and Car Collection. Points earned from any qualifying activity feed both the weekly seasonal targets and the larger series-wide rewards at the same time.\n\n* * *\n\n### Series 1 schedule and season rollover\n\nA full Series covers four real weeks, matching one complete weather cycle across Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring. The season changes every Thursday at 6:30 AM PT / 9:30 AM ET, and the next series begins immediately after the final season ends.\n\nSeason| Window (2026)\n---|---\nSummer| May 21 – May 28\nAutumn| May 28 – June 4\nWinter| June 4 – June 11\nSpring| June 11 – June 18\nSeries-wide| May 21 – June 18\n\nSeason rollover times in major regions:\n\nRegion| Thursday rollover\n---|---\nPacific Time| 7:30 AM\nEastern Time| 10:30 AM\nCentral Europe| 4:30 PM\nIndia| 8:00 PM\nJapan| 11:30 PM\nAustralia (AEST)| 12:30 AM (Friday)\nImage credit: __Xbox Game Studios (via YouTube/@Forza Clips)__\n\n* * *\n\n### Series-wide reward cars\n\nTwo cars span the entire Welcome to Japan series. Points carry from any season, so you can chase these gradually across the month rather than grinding a single week.\n\nThe 2008 Mazda Furai is the headline prize at 60 points. It is a concept car built around a 450-horsepower 20B three-rotor Wankel engine, and the only real-world prototype was destroyed in a fire during a test in 2008. Its name translates to \"sound of the wind.\"\n\nThe 2010 Nissan 370Z sits at 120 points, which is roughly a third of the total points available in Series 1. Reaching it requires consistent weekly play across all four seasons rather than a single burst.\n\nImage credit: __Xbox Game Studios (via YouTube/@Forza Clips)__\n\n* * *\n\n### Seasonal reward cars\n\nEach season offers two cars: one at 20 points and another at 40 points. Seasonal cars are only available during their specific week, so missing one means waiting for it to cycle back in a later series.\n\nSeason| Car| Points\n---|---|---\nSummer| 1999 Toyota Altezza RS200 Z Edition| 20\nSummer| 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX MR| 40\nAutumn| 1997 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec| 20\nAutumn| 1991 Honda CR-X SiR| 40\nWinter| 2019 Subaru STI S209| 20\nWinter| 2016 Toyota Land Cruiser Arctic Trucks AT37| 40\nSpring| 1996 Toyota Starlet Glanza V| 20\nSpring| 1974 Toyota Corolla SR5| 40\nSeries| 2008 Mazda Furai| 60\nSeries| 2010 Nissan 370Z| 120\n\n* * *\n\n### Week 1 Summer events and rewards\n\nThe opening week runs through the Summer season along the coastal regions of the Japan map. Point values are weighted toward weekly challenges and championships, with smaller PR Stunt and Photo Challenge contributions filling in the gaps.\n\nPts| Event| Name| Restriction| Reward\n---|---|---|---|---\n4| Monthly Rivals| Soni Circuit| '08 Mazda Furai| Super Wheelspin\n5| Weekly Challenge| Gazoo Racer| '22 Toyota GR86| 25,000 CR\n5| Championship – Road| Hot Like Summer| Retro Hot Hatch (C)| '89 Toyota MR2 SC\n5| Championship – Street| Street Fighter| Modern Super Saloons (A)| '22 Pagani Huayra R\n5| Championship – Dirt| Throwback Throwdown| Retro Rally (B)| '21 McLaren Sabre\n2| PR Stunt – Speed Trap| Bamboo Hilltop| Japan (A)| Wheelspin\n2| PR Stunt – Danger Sign| Airfield Takeoff| Japan (A)| Wheelspin\n3| Treasure Hunt| Ohtani Region| —| 100,000 CR\n2| Photo Challenge| —| —| Car Horn: Cat Meow\n3| Horizon| Floor It!| —| '03 Ford F-150 SVT Lightning\n2| Hide & Seek| 5 vs 1| —| '22 Ferrari 296 GTB\n3| Time Attack| Sekibe Time Attack| Japan (A)| Wheelspin\nImage credit: __Xbox Game Studios (via YouTube/@Forza Clips)__\n\n* * *\n\n### How points and rewards stack\n\nEvery event you finish in a season contributes points to three meters at once: the weekly seasonal target, the Series 1 total, and your lifetime Playlist Points used for Series History Rewards. Series History Rewards are a permanent track of exclusive cars unlocked by cumulative play across every series going forward.\n\nCompleting one of every Festival Playlist activity type during Series 1 also adds a Cherry Blossom Badge to your profile.\n\n* * *\n\n### Picking the right cars for the events\n\nMost weekly events lock you to a class or group, so a deep garage helps. The Summer week leans on Retro Hot Hatch (C), Modern Super Saloons (A), and Retro Rally (B) for its championships, plus the 2008 Mazda Furai for Monthly Rivals and the 2022 Toyota GR86 for the Weekly Challenge. The GR86 is one of three starter cars handed out after the Horizon Invitational, alongside the 2001 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI GSR TM Edition and the 2024 Ram 1500 TRX.\n\nFor PR Stunts and Time Attack at A class, a tuned mid-tier supercar like the Ferrari 488 Pista handles the mixed surfaces well. Dirt championships benefit from rally-ready B-class builds, and the Treasure Hunt in the Ohtani Region rewards exploration rather than a specific class.\n\n🎯\n\nTip: Tune any qualifying car up to the event's class ceiling instead of buying a new one. PI placement is dynamic, so a well-tuned B-class car can legally run in A-class events.\n\nImage credit: __Xbox Game Studios (via YouTube/@Forza Clips)__\n\n* * *\n\n### Confirming a reward unlocked\n\nWhen you cross a point threshold, the Festival Playlist screen shows the reward tile turning from locked to claimable. Selecting it adds the car directly to your garage and updates your Collection Journal. Cars unlocked through Series rewards appear in the same way as ones earned from Wristband events, and any duplicates can be sold at the Autoshow for credits.\n\nIf a reward is not granted after hitting the listed points, exit and re-enter the Festival Playlist menu. The point count syncs when the menu refreshes, and offline progress will not register until the next online handshake.\n\nSeries 2 begins immediately when Spring ends on June 18, 2026, so any seasonal cars from Welcome to Japan will leave the active pool at that point. Plan around the 20- and 40-point thresholds first each week, then chip away at the Furai and 370Z across the full month.",
  "title": "Forza Horizon 6 Festival Playlist Series 1: Welcome to Japan rewards and weekly events",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-22T03:14:15.101Z"
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