FH6 Series 4 Autumn Breakdown: The 2024 Camaro ZL1, the Fairlady Z, and a Trial You Can’t See Through

TL;DR — Autumn is week 2 of the Horizon Mascot Party, live now (Thursday through Wednesday). The two seasonal cars are the 2024 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 at 20 points and the 2016 Abarth 695 Biposto at 40. There are 55 playlist points on the board and you only need 40 to bank both, so you can skip a third of it and still walk away with everything. The one thing that will actually stop you is the Trial’s first race — it’s night and pea-soup fog, and the fix isn’t a better car, it’s flipping on High Contrast Mode. The reward list is thin this week and the community knows it, but the Camaro is the one car people actually want. Below is the full breakdown, the fastest route, and the traps.

The seasonal cars: 40 points gets you both

Everything in the playlist feeds two thresholds. Hit them and you’re done:

Points	Reward
20	2024 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
40	2016 Abarth 695 Biposto

The Camaro is the headliner and the argument. It’s a facelift, not a new car — “a minor facelift while even major versions of other cars are missing,” as one player put it — and there’s a genuine modeling slip worth knowing about: a commenter spotted that the cockpit animation shows paddle-shifting (which should mean the real car’s 10-speed auto), but in-game it runs only 6 gears. Treat that as a player-reported quirk, not a confirmed spec, but it’s the kind of detail that tells you how much love this reissue got. And yet — people still want it. “As much as people complain, I want that Camaro” was one of the most-upvoted takes in the thread. If you like the car, 20 points is nothing. Get it and don’t overthink the discourse.

Where the points come from

Here’s the full board. You do not need all of it — grab the cheap stuff first and stop once you clear 40.

Activity	Objective	Reward
The Trial (online)	A700 Modern Sports Cars, Road Racing	10 PTS + 1969 Nissan Fairlady Z 432
Scenic Nights	B600 Hot Hatch, Street Racing	5 PTS + 2021 Hyundai i20 N
All Wheel Domination	B600 Total AWD, Cross Country	5 PTS + 2020 Jimco #179 Hammerhead Class 1
Weekly Challenge	4 Speed Skills, win a Street Race, 3 laps at Edamame	5 PTS + 25,000 CR
Monthly Rivals	Clean lap at Edamame in the 1970 Honda N600	4 PTS + Super Wheelspin
Collectibles	Smash 15 Shimanoyama Heat mascots at Horizon Stadium	3 PTS + Super Wheelspin
Horizon Play Racing	3 LINK Clean Start skills in Spec Racing	3 PTS + 2017 Mazda MX-5 Cup
Horizon Stunt Party	Complete any Stunt Party	3 PTS + Green Gingham Relaxed Shirt
PR Stunts (×3)	C500 UTVs — Arashiyama 85 mph, Festival Loop 70 mph, On Par 33s	2 PTS each + Wheelspin
Photo Challenge	Your character in the Dango section at Horizon Stadium	2 PTS + Dango Outfit
Horizon Play	Complete a game of Hide & Seek	2 PTS + Forza Link cosmetic
Daily Challenges (×7)	One per day, Thu–Wed (see below)	1 PT + 5,000 CR each

The Fairlady Z 432 out of the Trial is quietly the best reward on the sheet — a genuine JDM classic, not another facelift — so even if the Trial is a slog this week, that’s the 10 points worth fighting for.

The seven Daily Challenges rotate one per day and pay 1 point plus 5,000 CR each: Thu — send a Gift Drop; Fri — 3 laps of any Time Attack circuit; Sat — bank a 10,000-point Skill Chain; Sun — complete a Cross Country race; Mon — earn 3 Wreckage Skills; Tue — earn at least 1 star from Danger Signs; Wed — earn 3 Speed Skills. None of them are hard, but they’re the only points you can miss permanently by not logging in, so if you care about the full 55, check in daily.

The fastest route to 40

If you want both cars with minimum fuss, this is the order that wastes the least time:

Weekly Challenge — 5 pts. Four Speed Skills and a Street Race win fall out of normal driving; the 3 laps at Edamame you’ll be doing anyway for Rivals.
The two Championships — 10 pts. Scenic Nights (Hot Hatch) and All Wheel Domination (Cross Country) are single-player and can be run on any difficulty. Drop to Tourist if the AI is being feral.
Monthly Rivals — 4 pts. One clean lap at Edamame in the N600. It’s slow, so “clean” is easy.
PR Stunts — 6 pts. Three UTV runs, all trivial to three-star with the right buggy.
Collectibles + Photo + Horizon Play chain — 10 pts. Smash the 15 mascots, snap the Dango photo, play a round of Hide & Seek, and clear the Spec Racing and Stunt Party objectives while you’re at the Stadium.

That’s 35 without touching the Trial. Add the Weekly’s dailies or the Trial’s 10 and you’re past 40 with room to spare.

The traps — read this part before you rage-quit

This is where the week actually costs people time.

The Trial is night-and-fog, and the fix is a settings menu. The first race of this week’s online A700 Trial is dark with fog “thicker than clam chowder,” and players are smashing into invisible walls because they can’t see the road. The fix credited in the thread: enable High Contrast Mode in Visual Accessibility. It recolors the road and cars and turns an unplayable race into a normal one. Do that before you blame your tune.

Total AWD means native AWD only. All Wheel Domination is a Horizon Special category — it only accepts cars that are all-wheel drive from the factory. AWD-swapped cars are locked out, and the game’s own drivetrain filter won’t warn you, because it doesn’t distinguish native from swapped. Pick something born AWD (a Silverado, a Bronco, an X5 M) or you’ll be stared at by a “not eligible” message on the start line.

Spec Racing starts are ghosted — the LINK Clean Start is free. Horizon Play Racing wants 3 LINK Clean Start skills, which sounds like a contact-avoidance nightmare. It isn’t: every car is ghosted at the start of a Spec Racing event, so you literally cannot fail the clean start. Just launch cleanly three times.

The Stunt Party runs on a clock. It kicks off at the top of every hour on a fixed rotation — Chaos, Drift, Speed, Wreckage — with a 10-minute signup window announced by a freeroam notification. Miss the window and you’re waiting up to an hour, so sign up the moment you see the prompt.

Struggling with the hard events? Borrow a tune

The community tuners have this week covered, and it’s worth pointing at them because one of the regulars may be signing off. Awes0me Beau, a fixture of the weekly tune threads since FH5, flagged that a job change might make this his last seasonal post — so if his tunes have carried your playlists, this is the week to download, like, and follow him in game. For the two events most likely to wall you:

The Trial (A700 Road): a stable all-arounder that can handle the Edamame circuit sandwiched between two sprints — the 2019 Nissan 370Z Nismo at 111 371 555 (shared by ollumi) is a safe pick.
All Wheel Domination (B600 Cross Country): the class gorilla is the 2020 Chevrolet Silverado LT Trail Boss at 929 316 795 (via ollumi) — heavy, native AWD, and built to eat the jumps on Wind Farm and Takashiro.

Credit to Beau, BigHeadDjango, and ollumi, who post full tested lists in the weekly r/ForzaHorizon thread every season. If you’d rather build your own than borrow, our FH6 Tuning Reference walks the sliders for road, cross country, and drift.

Is it actually worth your week?

Depends entirely on which player you are, and the thread split cleanly down the middle.

If you’re a slow-burn player — log in, run the playlist, do a few races, log out — this is a perfectly good week. “I just like doing the challenges regardless of rewards, it gives me reasons to play every week” was a common, unbothered take, and for the player with an hour or two on the weekend, the Camaro-plus-Fairlady haul is a fair trade for the time.

If you’re chasing reward quality, this is a weak sheet and you’re not wrong to feel it. “The rewards since launch have been absolutely terrible — the only cars worth it have been the Pantera and the 037” was the harsher read, and plenty echoed it, right down to the theory that Playground is holding the good rewards for the PlayStation 5 launch. One commenter put the mood at its bleakest, claiming “90% of the player base has stopped playing.” Treat that number the way we always do — it tracks the real, ugly decline in Steam concurrents from the launch peak, but it’s one platform’s snapshot, not a headcount of everyone who owns the game. The discontent is real; the specific figure is doing more work than it can.

The honest verdict: the Mascot Party’s second week is a light one, carried by a Camaro people love-to-hate and a Fairlady Z that’s genuinely worth the Trial. If you play weekly, clear it and enjoy the JDM classic. If you’d bounced off already, this isn’t the week that pulls you back — and that’s the pattern Playground still has to break.

Playlist data compiled from the r/ForzaHorizon weekly seasonal prize list; Total AWD, Photo Challenge, and Stunt Party tips credited to Schwarzes__Loch; tune share codes credited to their creators in-game.