Forza Horizon 6: Every Summer Horizon Decades Playlist Challenge

Summer is the opening season of the new Horizon Decades festival playlist, and the whole thing leans hard into 1980s cars. Almost every objective accepts any 80s machine, so the smartest play is to buy and tune one car early and ride it through most of the list. The fastest way to actually find these events on the map is the Seasonal filter, which highlights every Summer-flagged icon so you’re not hunting blind.

What the Summer playlist asks of you

The headline weekly challenge is built around the DeLorean DMC-12 — it shows in-game as the 1982 model, though it’s listed elsewhere as the 1983 DeLorean DMC-12, so the model year isn’t consistent across sources. There are four steps and you do them in order: own and drive it (about 68,000 CR in the Autoshow, searched under DeLorean), hold 142 km/h for 10 seconds on a straight stretch of highway, take a photo of it in Photo Mode, then win a road race in it.

That last step trips people up. The cleanest route is a Custom Race with the car theme set to Current Car / Use My Car, run Solo — and you genuinely have to win, since simply finishing won’t tick the box.

Everything you complete banks Playlist Points toward the season’s reward cars. Early reads point to roughly 20 points for the 1989 Volkswagen Rallye Golf and 40 points for the 1988 Lamborghini Countach LP5000 QV, but those totals and car names are single-source and not yet confirmed. The same caution applies to the window: Summer reportedly runs June 18-25, 2026, inside a wider Horizon Decades series running through July 16. Payouts carried over from the previous series — around 5 Playlist Points and 25,000 CR for the weekly and 5,000 CR per daily — are likely but not guaranteed here.

Daily and photo challenges in the Summer playlist

There are seven named dailies plus one photo challenge, and the good news is that most just want any 1980s car — the same DeLorean works fine. Sweet Car O’Mine asks you to drive into the Evolving World Car Meet and park in one of the bays. Take on Me is a head-to-head in The Eliminator (jump in through Horizon Play and roll up on another player to trigger the 1v1). Be Excellent to Each Other is the easiest of the lot — open the car menu, choose Gift Drop, and send any car to another player.

A few are tighter on requirements. Temple of Zoom wants a photo in any 1980s Ford at the Temple of Nachi Falls, near the top-left of the map — though that exact spot isn’t fully confirmed yet, so check the daily icon when it goes live. Short Circuit is a win at the Shimanoyama Circuit in an 80s car, and Ghostbuster has you beat a Rivals ghost via Horizon Rivals — pick any track, just match the event class to your car. Life Moves Pretty Fast breaks the 80s pattern: it only needs 241 km/h in any Ferrari, decade-agnostic. Finally, the photo challenge #TheJoyOfDrifting just wants a shot of any 1980s car mid-drift — pop the handbrake, slide, and snap.

PR stunts: three timed B-class runs

All three PR stunts ask for the same thing — a B-class 1980s car — so tune one up and tackle them back to back. The Drag Meet at Ito Half Mile wants 21 seconds or faster; it sounds tight for a B-class car, but a decent launch clears it comfortably (an 18-second run is very doable). The Speed Zone in Deep Forest is on dirt and asks you to average 153 km/h through the zone — start from the top so you can carry speed downhill, and expect the corners to bleed more than you’d like.

The Trailblazer at Nachi Falls just needs you to reach the finish with time to spare — roughly 43 seconds on the clock. Build up speed before you drop off the road, line up the gate, and try not to clip the rocks on the way down. The DeLorean handles all three perfectly well once it’s in B-class.

Seasonal championships and The Trial

There are two seasonal championships, and both are won on total points across three races — you don’t have to win every race, just take the most points overall. Street Runner runs in a C-class 1980s car, while What’s the Hatch uses D-class retro hot hatches from the decade. Pick your three-race set, drive consistently, and bank the championship.

The co-op event is The Trial – Push it to the Limit, where you team up with other players to beat a squad of very tough Drivatars. Beyond “it’s a team event against unbeatable AI,” the finer details are shaky: it’s described as a 6v6, best-of-three co-op race that’s only open to Horizon Legends with the Gold Wristband, but that’s single-source and not actually shown in action, so treat the format and the access gate as unconfirmed for now. If you can’t see The Trial at all, that progression lock is the likeliest reason.

Online and multiplayer challenges

Three challenges live in online modes, and none of them require winning. Touge Showdown – “My Little Pony” asks you to complete a Touge championship in any Ford Mustang. It’s worth buying a Mustang in several classes (D through S1) so matchmaking never locks you out of a race because you only own one class — and remember you only need to finish the championship, not win it. From the start it’s three one-on-one races.

Hide & Seek 5 vs 1 is even simpler: select it, get matchmade into a game, and just complete the match. The Monthly Rivals at Narai-Juku circuit is the series event you can do any time during the month — it drops you into a set Porsche and asks for a clean lap. Clean means no rewinds and no wall contact; you don’t have to win or beat your ghost, just reach the line cleanly. If you see a yellow exclamation mark next to your lap time, the lap was invalidated and won’t count.

Recommended 1980s cars and tune codes

These are community-shared setups, not official Forza requirements — you can clear every event without them, and the DeLorean alone covers most of the list. They’re here as a shortcut for the harder timed runs and championships if you’d rather not build a tune yourself. Drop the share code into the tuning menu, and note the Touge entry is a modern Mustang because that challenge only cares about the make, not the decade.

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