Festival Playlist events and rewards Aug. 14 - Aug. 21 (Summer S50)

SUMMER | WET SEASON

Here are the details on this week’s events and rewards. Share tips along with your tuning setup codes.

The season starts at 7:30am Pacific on August 14 and ends Thursday, August 21, 2025 2:30 PM
This is the first season of the returning Summer Party series.

PLAYLIST POINTS

Points are accumulated across all four seasons. Each event in the Festival Playlist has a number of points to earn noted in the bottom left corner of the event tile. Accumulate points with any combination of completed events to earn the first reward car, and continue earning points from remaining events to earn the second reward car. Cars noted as Seasonal Exclusive are not available in the Autoshow, so grab them while you can! But don’t worry if you miss them, these cars may come back again for future Festival Playlists, or you can use a Backstage Pass to select from the available options.

Series: 285 points

  • Series Reward: 2012 Lamborghini Aventador J (Backstage/Seasonal exclusive car) (80 points)
  • Series Reward: 1967 Mercedes-Benz 280 SL (Backstage/Seasonal exclusive car) (160 points)

Season: 70 points

  • Season Reward: 1973 Ford XB Falcon GT (Backstage/Seasonal exclusive car) (20 points)
  • Season Reward: Horizon Backstage Pass (40 points)

HORIZON BACKSTAGE

Added to the Backstage Shop this week:

  • 2018 Mercedes-AMG E 63 S
  • 2023 Porsche 911 GT3 RS

Two cars are added with the change of each season and voting for the next week beings. See details on Horizon Backstage voting, car selection, and passes here.

FORZATHON SHOP

500 FP Car 1926 Bugatti Type 35 C
100 FP Car 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS
75 FP Clothing Red Round Shades
75 FP Car Horn Minecraft Theme
1000 FP Backstage Pass 1 Pass
60 FP / 150 FP Wheelspin & Super Wheelspin

FORZATHON EVENTS

Completing these events earn seasonal points plus Forzathon Points (FP) which can be used in the Forzathon Shop.

Forzathon Weekly Challenge (5 pts)
(5 pts) These four challenges must be completed in sequence.

Cat Out of Hell
Chapter 1: Intimidating and Iconic Own and drive the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat
Chapter 2: Cat’s Out of the Bag Earn 6 Stars at Speed Traps in the Challenger SRT Hellcat
Chapter 3: Devil’s in the Details Take a photo of the Challenger SRT Hellcat
Chapter 4: Drag Demon Win a Drag Race in the Challenger SRT Hellcat

Forzathon Daily Challenges
(1 pt each) Each new challenge starts daily at 7:30am PT and is open for 7 days.

Meet and Street! Visit the Horizon Street Scene Outpost
Lifting Your Weight Earn 2 Stars at Trailblazers in any Classic Muscle vehicle
Some Light Speeding Earn 5 Awesome Speed Skills in Street Race Events
Toying Around Win a Road Race Event in any Track Toy
Bee’s Knees Earn 50,000 Skill Score in any vehicle from the 2000’s
Delivery Send a Gift Drop to another player
Picnic Lunch Smash 5 Picnic Tables

SEASON EVENT DETAILS

Toggle the menu to show the rewards and restrictions for each event - if you complete the event in a car outside the restrictions or fail to meet the target, you won’t get the reward and points from completion. You must have unlocked the Hall of Fame with Accolade points to enter the Trial. Access to Rally Adventure events require defeating the three team champions. Access to Hot Wheels events requires the Hot Wheels Expansion DLC; users without the DLC will still be able to gold the season and unlock the “Min, Meet Max” Achievement without these event points.

Pts Event Name Requirement Route
3 Horizon Arcade Mini Games Complete any Horizon Arcade theme
10 The Trial Hot Rod (C600) Rods & Customs Road Racing (Bahía de Plano Circuit)
5 EventLab Arco Raceway (A800) Open-Top Cars
5 EventLab Circuito de Los Pinos (A800) Track Toys
2 Danger Sign Valle (S2 998) Anything Goes - 984.3 feet (300m)
2 Trail Blazer City Escape (S2 998) Anything Goes - 45 seconds
2 Drift Zone Farmland Trail (S2 998) Anything Goes - 170,000 points
5 Championship And Now, the Classics (D500) Classic Sports Cars Street Racing (Highland Climb)
5 Championship Scrambling for More (B700) Modern Rally Dirt Racing (La Selva Scramble)
3 Treasure Hunt Sting Like a Beetle Trade colors as these tiny bugs menace the road
2 Photo Challenge #HotShot Photograph any Hot Hatch at the Horizon Street Scene Outpost
2 Horizon Open Summer Fun Complete any Horizon Open Racing Event
2 RA Speed Trap Orogrande Rush (S2 998) Anything Goes - 160 mph (258 kph)
5 RA Championship Twists and Turns (B700) Volkswagen The Narrows
2 HW Speed Zone Supersonic Spiral (S2 998) Anything Goes - 170 mph (274 kph)
5 HW Championship Dragon’s Quest (S1 900) McLaren Dragon’s Fall Speed Circuit

MONTHLY RIVALS

The total point value of Monthly events is divided by four when applied to individual seasons; completing both Rivals events will apply 2 points to each season in this series. Post a clean lap to complete Rivals events. Monthly Rivals cars are stock and provided as free rentals for the event, allowing you to test drive the car before collecting it from seasonal points.

Pts Event Route Car
1 Monthly Rivals Cathedral Circuit Toyota GR86
1 Monthly Rivals Arch of Mulegé Circuit Ford XB Falcon GT


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Cheers - Finally….

Full circle here for me, the original of this was the very first time I started testing all the Trial cars, given how long ago that was and how I’ve improved + learnt plenty since then I’ve re-done the entire thing here.

Built them all with mostly Descansar in mind and only a little bit of Bahía, I only ran them on the initial lap of Bahía due to not wanting to risk losing the Lagonda I have up on that board….

C Rods and Customs (Descansar Dorado Sprint)

Chevy Impala - 2:13.884
Plymouth Fury - 2:15.135
Chevy Bel Air - 2:15.219
Lincoln Continental - 2:15.919
Chevy 150 - 2:16.428
Ford F-100 - 2:18.356

Ford Coupe '32 - 2:20.157
Ford Wagon - 2:20.958
Ford Coupe '40 - 2:21.808

Bahía De Plano Circuit (1st lap)

F-100 - 59.710
Impala - 59.726
Bel Air - 59.860
Fury - 59.960

Lincoln - 1:00.093
150 - 1:00.210
Coupe '32 - 1:00.661
Wagon - 1:00.986
Coupe '40 - 1:01.178

Combined

Impala - 3:13.610
Bel Air - 3:15.079
Fury - 3:15.095
Lincoln - 3:16.012
150 - 3:16.638
F-100 - 3:18.066

Coupe '32 - 3:20.818
Wagon - 3:21.944
Coupe '40 - 3:22.986

The old Fords are just write offs with a conventional AWD swapped build, either power + absolutely zero handling or decent handling + massively down on power vs the rest of the options.

I’ll share my Impala tomorrow but @ziperrPL still has his as well as a Fury available from the original that are both very good.

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I have posted this elsewhere but here are the Trial and treasure Hunt screenshots

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SUMMER WET SEASON

Campaign Series 50 Summer:

· # Forzathon [Cat out of Hell]

2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat - Tuning Code: 158435711

· Hot Rod

Requirement: C600 Rods & Customs

1964 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport 409 - Tuning Code: 546430274

· Valle

Requirement: S2 all

Ziel/ Target: 984,3 ft / 300 m

1986 Hoonigan Ford RS2000 Evolution - Tuning Code: 776111396

· Feldweg [Farmland Trail]

Requirement: S2 all

Ziel/ Target: 170000 pts

2020 #91 BMW M2 Formula Drift - Tuning Code: 100508788

· Stadtflucht [City Escape]

Requirement: S2 all

Ziel/ Target: 45 s

2020 Sierra Cars #23 Yokohama Alpha - Tuning Code: 357793898

· Und jetzt die Klassiker [And now, the Classics]

Requirement: D500 Classic Sport Cars

1974 Toyota Celica GT - Tuning Code: 115638459

· Hoher Einsatz [Scrambling for more]

Requirement: B700 Modern Rally Cars (Dirt)

2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX MR – Tuning Code: 854681623

Rally Adventures:

· Orogrande Rush

Requirement: S2 all

Ziel/ Target: 160 mph / 257 km/h

2020 Koenigsegg Jesko - Tuning Code: 806299667

· Drehungen und Wendungen [Twists and Turns]

Requirement: B700 VW Strasse

2003 Volkswagen Golf R32 - Tuning Code: 349725875

Hot Wheels:

· Überschallspirale [Supersonic Spiral]

Requirement: S2 all

Ziel/ Target: 170 mph / 274 km/h

2018 Chevrolet Hot Wheels Copo Camaro - Tuning Code: 151775656

· Dragon´s Quest

Requirement: S1 McLaren

1993 McLaren F1 - Tuning Code: 535037890

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one-line version - VW Beetle, 3 Trading Paint :+1:

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Trial straightforward. Good team, clean, good race out front with another player on first circuit.

Not a fan of the EL track with the open top restriction. Bleh.

The VW sp2 is a lovely little thing for the d class sc

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how did you feel when you woke up from the dream?

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:joy: no no legit. No dream

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this one’s really unpredictable, try to get a line to go past the others and at every turn something random happened and I couldn’t get past anything on the first lap! second go was better

Last time there was a lot of discussion about which ones would work. This time I was successful with the Foust Rockstar GRC Beetle and only using non-Beetle traffic. :+1:

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doesn’t surprise me that there was uncertainty! I used the plain old VW Beetle, was worried when it didn’t pop with the first one so carried on a bit

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Thanks - a one line description plus the destination pic from Lostphoenixuk was all that was needed as usual. :+1: :+1: :+1:

Why this insistence to self promote your web page for no reason whatsoever?

Just plain annoying.

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(C600), brother🤝

the one stock car eligible for that, the Chevy Impala, my goodness me what a pile of . . .

I didn’t have any problems with it.

well, steering and grip were options that weren’t fitted on my one!

did okay enough, beat 4 robots twice, well, 4 then 2 but something invisible brought me to a halt just before the finish line

but, yeah, absolute gem of the US car stereotype