Forza Horizon 6 Series 3, Italian Exotics, has entered its final week. Spring brings two high-performance Festival Playlist reward cars, the final Car Pass addition of the Series and an important new Xbox cloud-save recovery option for players affected by lost-save issues.
Italian Exotics Spring Festival Playlist
The Spring season runs from August 6 through August 13, 2026, bringing Series 3: Italian Exotics to its conclusion.
The 2022 Lamborghini Huracán EVO Spyder is available for earning 20 Festival Playlist points. Its naturally aspirated 5.2-litre V10 produces 630 bhp, while all-wheel drive helps put that performance to the road.
The 2022 Pagani Huayra R is the 40-point Spring reward. Designed as a track-only machine, the Huayra R uses a 6.0-litre V12 producing 838 bhp and sends its power to the rear wheels.
The overall Italian Exotics Series rewards remain the 2024 Lamborghini Temerario at 80 points and the 2022 Ferrari 296 GTB at 160 points. Both remain available until the Series ends on August 13.
Players can also continue accumulating lifetime Festival Playlist points toward the 1972 Mazda Cosmo 110S Series II, unlocked at 500 lifetime Playlist points through the Series History reward system.
Sources: Forza.net – Italian Exotics Series overview and FH6 Festival Playlist events and rewards.
1972 Honda Z GT Joins Car Pass
The 1972 Honda Z GT became available through Forza Horizon 6 Car Pass on August 6, completing the four-car Car Pass lineup introduced during Italian Exotics.
The tiny Japanese hardtop brings a very different character to the garage than the exotic machinery elsewhere in Series 3. Its compact dimensions, lightweight construction and distinctive 1970s styling should make it an entertaining option for lower-class builds and unusual road-racing projects.
No New Broad Gameplay Patch This Week
No new broad Forza Horizon 6 gameplay update was published during this reporting week.
The current gameplay baseline therefore remains the Italian Exotics update. Its changes included improvements intended to reduce excessive AI collisions on corner entry, fixes to the LINK Clean Sweep Skill, removal of the Auction House price cap for cars unavailable through the Autoshow and fixes targeting a number of XP, credit and competitive-mode exploits.
The update also reset Rivals leaderboards to remove unrealistic times, while Playground Games continues to investigate exploits affecting PR Stunt leaderboards.
Italian Exotics also expanded EventLab, Customizable Garages and Estate building with 52 additional props.
Sources: Forza.net – Italian Exotics release notes and Italian Exotics Series overview.
Xbox Cloud Save Recovery Gets an Important Upgrade
Forza Support published a significant update on August 5 regarding the lost-save issue that has affected a small number of Forza Horizon 6 players.
Xbox console users are gaining the ability to browse available cloud-save versions and restore previously synced saves directly from their console. The feature was already available to Xbox Insiders and is now being rolled out more broadly.
Forza Support says the option can be accessed through Manage game & add-ons > Saved data > Restore saved data for Forza Horizon 6.
This does not mean the wider lost-save investigation is closed. Forza says it continues to work on the issue and asks players who still experience lost data to submit a support ticket.
Source: Forza Support – Notice Regarding Lost Save Issues in Forza Horizon 6.
Community Watch: FHE01 Startup Crash Report
A recent community report describes an FH6 startup crash displaying FHE01. At the time of writing, this appears to be an individual player report rather than a newly confirmed widespread issue, so it should not be treated as an official known-issues update.
Players experiencing repeatable crashes should check the Forza Support known-issues list and submit a bug report with their system information and reproduction details if no existing report matches the problem.
Forza Horizon 6 — Italian Exotics Spring Weekly Challenge | Racing Spirit
This week’s recommended Forza Factory video is the Weekly Challenge ‘Racing Spirit’, part of the Italian Exotics Series. This is a great guide on how to complete the first challenge of the Spring Season including a Tune Code which you can use in multiple other challenges too. Looking for Tune Codes for the Spring Season check out this post on Reddit: Custom Tune Codes
Official – Lanborghini Temerario
Looking for an official video for some entertainment then check out this: Driving emotion knows no boundaries. Experience Lamborghini Temerario in Forza Horizon 6. This trailer provides the a great visual overview of the Temerario
Source: Official Forza Videos.
Horizon Mascot Party Is Next
Italian Exotics concludes on August 13, and Playground Games has already confirmed the theme of the next Forza Horizon 6 update: Horizon Mascot Party.
The upcoming Series will celebrate the mascots found throughout Horizon Japan and is confirmed to include new cars and events together with a mascot-themed Evolving World Time Attack Circuit.
Full details of the next Series had not yet been published at the time of this News Brief.
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