Drift Attack, a permanent new mode that Playground Games describes as Time Attack for drifters, headlines Forza Horizon 6’s British Automotive update rolling out today at 10:00 AM Pacific (1:00 PM Eastern) on XBOX Series X|S, the XBOX app on PC, and Steam. The update also brings a British Automotive Takeover at the Aftermarket dealership near the Horizon Stadium, three new-to-Horizon cars in the Festival Playlist, and four more for Car Pass holders, with the new Festival Playlist series kicking off Thursday, September 10 at 7:30 AM Pacific (10:30 AM Eastern).
Drift Attack lives at the Shimanoyama Circuit, which has been converted into a permanent drift course you enter straight from the open world by driving through a gantry, no loading required. The goal is the highest drift score in a single lap, though you can run as many laps as you want to climb the leaderboard, solo, in a Convoy, or alongside players in the Shared World. Scoring works like Horizon Drift and Drift Zones with one addition: Clipping Zones scattered around the circuit multiply any points earned while your car is inside them. The mode unlocks with the Yellow Wristband in the campaign, and completing its Collection Journal entry earns a Drift Attack racesuit and helmet plus a purpose-built 1990 Jaguar XJ-S Forza Edition. A stock XJ-S has been added to the Autoshow for everyone.
In my Forza Horizon 6 review, I said the game may not be the perfect racing game for me after 40 hours, but it’s damn close, and that it nails the essence of Japanese car culture in a way no other racing game has. Touge battles were a big part of that, so a dedicated drift circuit with proper leaderboards is a natural fit for this map, even if the headline car is about as far from JDM as Playground could have picked.
The Festival Playlist runs four weeks with 10 reward cars, three of them new to the series: the 2025 Bentley Continental GT Speed at 80 points, the 2019 Ginetta G40 Junior in the Summer season, and the 2006 Vauxhall Astra VXR in Winter. The 2015 Jaguar XKR-S GT and 2002 Lotus Esprit V8 return from earlier games, while the 2019 Aston Martin Valhalla Concept and 2016 Bentley Bentayga are Wheelspin exclusives. Car Pass owners get the 2025 McLaren W1 on September 10, which debuts a Paint Body (Advanced) option for painting individual body parts, followed by the 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170, 1998 Renault Sport Spider, and the off-road 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera Coupe Luftauto 002 on successive Thursdays. Patch notes include a fix for misplaced wheels, separate audio and subtitle language settings, a fix for missing character models in other players’ cars on lower PC settings, and improved car rendering on the High preset.
October’s series is called Horizon Meets, with a temporary 7-Eleven Konbini Evolving World and a permanent EventLab Content Pack. Playground also reiterated that Forza Horizon 6 is still coming to PlayStation 5 later this year, though there’s still no date, and the game can be wishlisted on the PlayStation Store in the meantime.
