Forza Horizon 5 adds the 1990 Aston Martin Lagonda to this week’s Festival Playlist
Playground Games has added the 1990 Aston Martin Lagonda to Forza Horizon 5’s Festival Playlist for the week starting October 22 and running until October 29. The luxury saloon is the 20 PTS Spring reward, and it headlines a playlist that also includes series rewards, a collectible challenge and a full run of seasonal events across the base game, Hot Wheels and Rally Adventure.
The Lagonda heads this week’s Spring rewards
Playground Games describes the Lagonda as Aston Martin’s second four-door saloon, and the announcement leans into the car’s sharply angular design. The studio also points to the interior, which is presented as one of the model’s calling cards. Inside, players will find premium leather and the sort of early-90s tech that suits the car’s era, including digital screens and displays.
The Lagonda is not just a styling piece. Playground Games says it uses a 5.3-liter V8 that makes 285hp and 320lb-ft of torque. In the post, the car is billed as a “polygonal, luxury tank,” and it becomes available through the Festival Playlist for 20 PTS during the week of October 22 to October 29.
The Spring reward track also includes a 40 PTS Backstage Pass. Alongside that, the wider series reward ladder offers the 1992 Mercedes-Benz 500E at 80 PTS and the 1992 GMC Typhoon at 160 PTS.
Festival Playlist rewards beyond the Aston Martin
This week’s collectible challenge is built around what Playground Games calls the inflatable VHS Collectible. Completing it awards the Tape Rewind Car Horn. The studio frames the challenge with the line, “Be kind and smash!”
The rest of the playlist stretches across standard seasonal events, PR Stunts and expansion content. That includes Forzathon Weekly, EventLab, The Trial, Playground Games, two seasonal championships, three PR Stunts, the Photo Challenge, Collectibles, Horizon Open and Super7.
- Forzathon Weekly: Civic Duty — 1997 Honda Civic Type R
- EventLab: JCO Project Race3 Airport Night — Classic Muscle, B 700 — Super Wheelspin
- EventLab: Cathedral GP — Hot Hatch, B 700 — Banjo-Kazooie Spiral Mountain Part 2
- EventLab: Cauldron Rally Circuit — Modern Rally & Rally Monsters, S1 900 — #23 Nissan RR
- The Trial: Only Bulls & Horses — 1990s Ferrari vs. Lamborghini, A 800 — 2014 Ford Ranger T6 Rally Raid
- Playground Games: Get Your Game On, Go Play! — Hoonigan, S1 900 — 1991 BMW M3
- Seasonal Championship: 90s Icons: Jaguar XJ220 — Jaguar, B 700 — 1993 Jaguar XJ220
- Seasonal Championship: Fur-by Fours — Pickups & 4x4s, B 700 — 1991 Hoonigan GYMKHANA 10 Ford Escort Cosworth Group A
- PR Stunt: Desierto Viviente – Speed Zone — 1990s Japan, B 700 — Super Wheelspin
- PR Stunt: Dustbowl – Speed Trap — 1990s Japan, B 700 — Super Wheelspin
- PR Stunt: Baja Showjump – Danger Sign — 1990s Japan, B 700 — Super Wheelspin
The Photo Challenge is #PawsForAPicture, which asks players to take a photo of the 1993 Jaguar XJ220 for the Cat Meow reward. The Collectibles task, Video Hits, has players smash 10 Inflatable VHS’s at the Horizon Street Scene Outpost to earn Tape Rewind.
Hot Wheels and Rally Adventure get their own rewards
Forza Horizon 5’s expansion playlists are active this week too. On Hot Wheels, the Everlong seasonal championship is restricted to 1990s Extreme Track Toys in S2 998 and pays out the 1995 Nissan NISMO GT-R LM. The Hot Wheels PR Stunt is Hammer’s Shadow – Speed Trap, limited to 1990s UK cars and rewarding a Super Wheelspin.
Rally Adventure features Room for Desert?, a 1990s Rally championship in B 700 that awards the 1997 Land Rover Defender 90. Its PR Stunt, Tierras Verdes – Drift Zone, is also tied to 1990s UK cars and gives out a Super Wheelspin.
Elsewhere in the playlist, Horizon Open offers Multi Pass, which asks players to earn 5 Pass Skills, while Horizon Super7 awards a Super Wheelspin for completing all seven challenge cards. Playground Games says this is the third week of the Festival Playlist.
Sources
- Playground Games: Premium Car, Premium Interior: Welcome the Lagonda to Your Garage
Tags: collectibles, EventLab, Festival Playlist, seasonal rewards
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polygonal luxury tank is mad lol
20 PTS for the Lagonda feels pretty cheap for a car that weird. the 285hp figure is low too, but that shape makes it a proper cruise car.
cheap is one way to say it, but 20 PTS for a niche saloon feels like the right kind of filler reward. i’d rather that than another car i already own three copies of.
i grabbed one of these on a playlist ages ago and spent way too long trying to make it not drive like a boat. if you soften the rear a bit and calm the accel down, it’s actually kinda funny in highway pulls. still not something i’d take into Horizon Open unless i wanted to get bullied by AWD meta cars though.
i did the VHS smash thing with a random hatchback and missed one because i drove straight past the outpost like a clown. took me longer to find the collectibles than to actually break them.
classic chaos
which car did you use?
rs3, bad choice honestly
that 40 PTS Backstage Pass is the real prize here, not the Lagonda. car rewards come and go, but anything that helps with old playlist cars is basically currency.
i get the value, but calling it the real prize feels a bit much. if you actually want the Lagonda, the 20 PTS target is way more immediate, and most players are just running the week for the car first. backstage passes are nice, sure, but they sit in the menu until something worth buying shows up.
sure, if you’re chasing one thing this week then the Lagonda is the cleaner target. i’m just saying the backstage pass is the one reward that can save you later when a car you missed finally shows up, which is more useful than another angular boat collecting dust in the garage. it’s the kind of playlist currency that actually matters once the hype fades.
mate you talk about ‘once the hype fades’ like we’re all sitting on a spreadsheet waiting for the perfect car. some of us just want to drive the weird stuff and not do festival chores for future maybes.
fair, and the weird stuff is half the fun. i just still think they know exactly how to dangle the useful reward in front of us while pretending it’s about the saloon.
the photo challenge with the 1993 Jaguar XJ220, it is easy on solo? or need a special place?
just park near the right spot and take the shot, nothing fancy. the cat meow reward is the only silly part.
pretty easy
why would it need anything special? it’s a photo challenge, not a rally stage.
Lagonda is ugly in a good way
the 1990s Japan PR Stunts are the best part here, not the headline car. those B 700 speed traps are way more fun than dragging a luxury sedan around.
nah, the Lagonda is the point.
you say that like anyone is booting up FH5 for a four-door Aston and not the goofy 90s track toys. be honest, you’re only defending it because it looks like a fridge on wheels.
maybe, but the fridge on wheels has character. also the 90s Japan stuff is still there, so we can both win for once.
fair enough, we’ll see