There’s no party like a mascot party, or so they say. Series 4 of Forza Horizon 6, Horizon Mascot Party, is going live this week, ushering a new cycle of the four season in Horizon Japan, and a fresh new Festival Playlist (the game’s equivalent to a free battle pass) will become available. Ten cars will be available to collect by completing enough of the Festival Playlist activities, though only three are new-to-Horizon i.e. new cars debuting in the series.
The “evolving world” feature this Series sees the Horizon Stadium being turned into a Time Attack circuit, the Edamame Time Attack Circuit. Also, two novelty car horns in the form of a Mascot Car Horn and Fus-Roh-Dah horn will be added. The latter, a nod to The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim’s most famous Shout, might be in contention as the funniest novelty horn if it literally is the loud sound bit from one of the trailers. But this is a game that has the Windows XP shutdown jingle, or the diabolical Microsoft Teams dial sound as horns.
There are also more props added, for those that engage with EventLab and the Estate and Garage customisations.
Forza Horizon 6 Series 4 Earnable Cars
The three new-to-Horizon cars aren’t that exciting, and not really themed well here. Leading the bunch is the Honda N600, so the cute, light and old (it sports the old Honda badge, which looks like the new and current Honda badge) sports car fits the bill. The Exomotive Exocet Sport V8 XP-5 is a deep cut but should be an interesting open cockpit addition to Forza Horizon 6’s massive list, and the 2024 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is another version of the sixth generation Camaro which was already represented with a 2017 version of the Camaro ZL1 and a 2018 Camaro ZL1LE. This is the weakest of picks, as not that the sixth-gen Camaro has just minor facelifts, but the previous generation Camaros, with actually noticeable design differences, are yet to make it to Japan.
The rest of the earnable cars had appeared in past Festival Playlist events. This is developer Playground Games’ attempt to reduce FOMO induced from having to keep up every series to earn all the limited-time cars tied to the Festival Playlist, which won’t be available outside of player auctions, or reruns of Festival Playlists and Backstage Passes added at the end of a Forza Horizon game’s lifecycle. Though that has made the community less happy with having less new content dropping each month, if reactions on socials is to be believed.
(bold are new-to-Forza Horizon cars)
- Festival Playlist Series 4 (August 13 – September 10)
- 1970 Honda N600 – 80 PTS
- 1967 Renault 8 Gordini – 160 PTS
- Summer (August 13 – August 20)
- 2018 Exomotive Exocet Sport V8 XP-5 – 20 PTS
- 1969 Datsun 2000 Roadster – 40 PTS
- Autumn (August 20 – August 27)
- 2024 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 – 20 PTS
- 2016 Abarth 695 Biposto – 40 PTS
- Winter (August 27 – September 3)
- 1974 Toyota Celica GT – 20 PTS
- 1989 Toyota MR2 SC – 40 PTS
- Spring (September 3 – September 10)
- 1988 Mitsubishi Starion ESI-R – 20 PTS
- 1968 Dodge Dart HEMI Super Stock – 40 PTS
Forza Horizon 6 Series 4 Car Pass Drops
Every week, for 30 weeks, Forza Horizon 6 adds a new car to those who purchase the Car Pass DLC, added directly to the garage when available. Interestingly, not all of the Car Pass cars dropping in the next four weeks are new-to-Forza. The Ford Thunderbird and Porsche 961 had appeared in Forza Motorsport 4 and Forza Motorsport (2023) respectively.
- August 13: 1987 Porsche #203 Porsche AG 961
- August 20: 1957 Ford Thunderbird
- August 27: 1968 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/2
- September 3: 1983 Nissan Skyline 2000 Turbo RS
Forza Horizon 6 is out now on PC (Steam, Microsoft Store) and Xbox Series X|S, and coming to PS5 later this year. Check out our review of the game here.