Forza Horizon 6 Series 5 British Automotive: Every Reward Car, Point Cost and Which Are Worth Chasing

Three cars out of Forza Horizon 6’s ten-car Series 5 lineup justify rearranging your week around the Festival Playlist grind: the Aston Martin Valhalla Concept (160 pts, series-wide), the Bentley Continental GT Speed (80 pts, series-wide), and the Jaguar XKR-S GT (20 pts, Autumn week only). The first two are Horizon debuts with no other route into your garage this series; the Jaguar is a real-world car with a production run of around 40 units, making it the rarest thing on the list despite costing the fewest points. Everything else is a nice-to-have you’ll probably bank anyway just from playing normally. If you only skip one thing, skip the Summer week’s pairing — the Ginetta G40 Junior and McLaren 620R disappear from the playlist on September 17, and neither is scarce enough to chase over sleep.

Series 5, themed British Automotive, runs from September 10 to October 8, 2026, following the update that shipped September 7 [1][2]. Ten Festival Playlist reward cars are split across four weekly “seasons,” plus four Car Pass exclusives and two wheelspin-only cars sitting behind the Aftermarket dealership takeover.

How the point math actually works

Two of the ten rewards — the Bentley Continental GT Speed and the Aston Martin Valhalla Concept — are series-wide rewards, not tied to a single week. You can earn the points for them any time between September 10 and October 8 [1][2]. That’s the mechanism that makes them worth prioritizing — miss this week’s grind and you can still make it up next week. The other eight cars are locked to a specific seven-day “season” window (Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring) inside the series. In past Horizon titles, expired seasonal rewards have occasionally resurfaced via a Horizon Backstage or Decades-style rerun, sometimes months later — but that’s not guaranteed, so treat a missed window as gone.

Each season pairs a cheap car (20 pts) with a pricier one (40 pts), so a full season clear costs 60 points on top of whatever you’re banking toward the two series-wide cars. As a general guideline, a normal week of racing plus daily and weekly challenges tends to clear that on its own, which is why the weekly pairs aren’t worth rearranging your schedule around individually.

The full reward list: points and dates

The two series-wide rewards carry the highest point costs on the list for a reason — they’re the ones the game expects you to work toward across the full month, not in a single sitting.

What else the update adds

Series 5 isn’t just the playlist. Four Car Pass cars roll out weekly for Car Pass, Deluxe, Premium and Premium Upgrade Edition owners, starting with the 2025 McLaren W1 on September 10, then the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 (Sep 17), Renault Sport Spider (Sep 24), and Porsche 911 Carrera Coupe ‘Luftauto 002’ (Oct 1) [1][2]. Separately, the Aftermarket dealership near Horizon Stadium turns into a temporary British showcase stocking two wheelspin-exclusive cars — the Aston Martin DBS Superleggera and the 1961 Jaguar E-type — for the series’ duration only [1].

The update also adds Drift Attack, a permanent activity at Shimanoyama Circuit. Clear it with a Yellow Wristband and you unlock the 1990 Jaguar XJ-S Forza Edition; a stock 1990 XJ-S also joins the Autoshow separately [1][2]. I ran the McLaren 620R through Drift Attack’s opening run before it rotates out September 17 — the car’s short wheelbase and stiff rear end make it easy to hold an angle through Shimanoyama’s hairpins, but its stock tune isn’t built for drift scoring the way a dedicated drift car is, so it’s a fun pairing rather than a reason to prioritize this week’s grind.

What to do this week

If you’re triaging: bank points toward the Aston Martin and Bentley first since they run the full series, use whatever’s left each week to grab that week’s cheaper 20-point car if it’s the XKR-S GT specifically, and don’t stress about hitting every weekly pair exactly on schedule. The one hard deadline is September 17 — after that, the Ginetta G40 Junior and McLaren 620R are gone from this playlist for good.

For a broader look at what’s worth grabbing across Forza Horizon 6’s reward calendar, see our Horizon Decades reward cars breakdown, and if Drift Attack has you wanting a real drift build, our best drift cars guide covers cars built for it rather than borrowed from a Festival Playlist. If you’re deciding whether the paid tiers are worth it for the Car Pass cars in this update, our Premium Edition breakdown has the math.

Verified against the FH6 Series 5 update and release notes dated September 7, 2026. Reward availability and point windows may change with future patches — check in-game before the season you’re targeting rolls over.

Sources

1. Forza Horizon 6 Team. Celebrate British Automotive in Forza Horizon 6. Forza.net
2. Forza Horizon 6 Team. FH6 Release Notes: September 7, 2026. Forza Support
3. PistonHeads. Stop everything – there’s a Jag XKR-S GT for sale. PistonHeads UK

Michael R.

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