Forza Horizon 6’s Wheelspins are an essential way of unlocking rare cars (and earning money), with a total of 46 exclusive cars. To farm them, you’ll need a lot of skill points, here’s how to get them!

Overview

The overall strategy is to farm skill points via highly efficient EventLab races & cars, then spend them on cars that include Wheelspins in their skill mastery tree.

Super straightforward, the only complexity is optimising the approach.

Earning skill points

Skill points, earned through (unsurprisingly) completing skills, reward different points depending on complexity. Additionally, they are not earned at a fixed rate per skill, and are instead affected significantly by your car’s unlocked masteries, meaning choosing the right car is as important as what activity you do.

Cars

We need a car, car masteries, and a car tune.

Specifically, we need a car that has:

  1. “Where the fun begins”: Skill multiplier builds 2.5x faster.
  2. “Show me your moves”: 20% more skill score from combo skills.
  3. “Multi maxer”: Skill multiplier can go up to 9.

Whilst the 1984 Peugeot 205 Turbo 161 (and other legendary cars) have these, we want a faster car that is far easier to get: the 1998 Subaru Impreza 22B-STi Version2. Get used to this car, we’ll be talking about it a lot!

This car can be purchased from the Autoshow for 86,000 credits (81,700 with VIP discount). You will likely want to apply a distinct livery to avoid accidentally selling it later.

Once purchased, exit into the open world and purchase those 3 skills mentioned above (and the necessary connecting skills) for a total of 30 skill points. You also might as well buy the Super Wheelspin whilst you’re here for 20 additional skill points.

Finally, you’ll want to add a farming optimised tune to your car. I highly recommend “ammagedon79”’s S2 tune, share code 140 242 027.

All done! You now have a tuned car, with car masteries configured, ready for farming.

EventLab

Next up, we need somewhere to farm points, luckily our tune creator from earlier is also an EventLab race creator!

Open up the Creative Hub tab of the pause menu, Horizon EventLab, then Play Event. Search for share code 890 169 683, and add it to your favourites.

This track takes ~24 seconds, and is more efficient than other farming maps as it places the high value obstacles below the map, meaning they are still hit whilst not slowing the car down much.

Skill Point farming

Now we’ve got the car and the EventLab, it’s farming time.

  1. Select the previously favourited EventLab, solo race type.
  2. Select your tuned 1998 Subaru Impreza 22B-STi Version from earlier.
  3. In “Difficulty & Settings”, set “Steering” to “Auto-Steering”, then start the race.
  4. Hold down the accelerator until you cross the finish line.
  5. Press the restart button, confirm, and start the race again (no need to change settings).
  6. Repeat steps 4 & 5 for as long as you want!

Each “loop” of steps 4 & 5 will take you approximately 45 seconds, and earn you 10 skill points (the maximum in 1 combo). You won’t earn coins or XP for the more than 1 race (as you restarted), but will earn XP for all skill combos.

Make sure to not do this for longer than an hour, or you may hit the maximum 999 skill points.

Totals

I timed a few loops of this farming method, and the time taken varied due to loading times, the race start countdown, and race completion time variations. However, 45 seconds was the average.

I also found that some attempts would only reward 9 skill points, presumably due to minor variations in how the skill combo was calculated. As such, let’s round up to 47 seconds to account for this.

That gives us 10 skill points per 47 seconds = 12.76 per minute = 766 skill points earned per hour!

Spending skill points

To convert these points into Wheelspins, we’ll be buying Autoshow cars with Super Wheelspins in their skill mastery. For a list of cars that can be won from these Wheelspins, see u/KillerSpectre21’s rare cars Google Sheet.

Cars

There are 2 main cars used for this, however the volume of these being sold on the Auction House means they are essentially unsellable & worthless once purchased. As such, the purchase price matters:

  1. Credit efficiency: The 1998 Subaru Impreza 22B-STi Version2 (yes, the one you’re driving!) costs 86,000 (81,700 with VIP) & 30 skill points for 3 Wheelspins, so 28,666 (27,200) credits & 10 skill points per spin.
  2. Skill point / time efficiency: Alternatively, the 2024 Lamborghini Revuelto3 costs 365,000 (346,750 with VIP) & 39 skill points for 6 Wheelspins, so 60,833 (57,791) credits & 6.5 skill points per spin.

As you can see, the Lambo costs twice as much per spin but provides almost twice as many spins per skill point. Is this worth it? Well, let’s consider Wheelspin rewards.

Some online Wheelspin Reward estimators suggest an expected value of 79,762 credits per Wheelspin4. However, this assumes you have all the rare cars already (so can auto-sell), and the median value of 20,000 credits is more realistic unless you’re doing hundreds of spins (in which case you will steadily gain money, assisted by rare large wins).

Using the conservative 20,000 credits estimate, you’ll lose 21,700 credits per Subaru, but 226,750 per Lambo(!). Using the optimistic 79,762 credits estimate, you’ll gain 157,586 per Subaru, and 131,822 per Lambo.

As such, my strong recommendation is the Subaru, unless you have nothing left to spend money on, in which case the Lambo.

Purchasing masteries

This is probably the least pleasant part of the whole process. You need to buy your target car, then purchase masteries on it, then repeat this until you’re out of skill points.

Assuming you’re starting from the pause menu:

  1. In the “Cars” tab, select “Buy New & Used Cars” and accept the Festival teleport.
  2. On the “Buy & Sell” tab, select “Autoshow”.
  3. Left bumper (since we start at A, and need S) to Subaru, then select the legendary 1998 Subaru.
  4. Spam your way through the menus to pick the default colour and purchase it.
  5. Wait for the purchase animation to play, press B to back out all the way to the main game.
  6. Pause the game again, press Right Bumper & down to get to Car Mastery.
  7. Purchase a ]-shaped line up to the top left Super Wheelspin, and spin it.

This entire process takes approximately 49 seconds.

Tip: You may find it slightly easier to left bumper to Toyota then D-Pad left to select the Subaru.

Totals

Following the process above, we can spend 30 skill points every 49 seconds (for 1 Super Wheelspin AKA 3 Wheelspins). This equates to 36.7 skill points spent per minute or 2,204 skill points spent per hour.

Using our earlier time of 47 seconds per 10 skill points earned, we can calculate a time of 141 seconds to earn a Super Wheelspin, and 49 seconds to spend and spin a Super Wheelspin, for a total of 190 seconds or 3 minutes 10 seconds per complete Super Wheelspin process. Around 19 per hour. Finally, you’ll also receive 6000XP per process, for a total of 114,000XP per hour.

Again using the optimistic 79,762 credits per Wheelspin figure from earlier estimates4, this would be very approximately 1.5m credits per hour. Obviously with Wheelspins the rare cars are the priority, but it’s some nice bonus credits!

Note that if we had chosen to use the Lambo, the time taken would be slightly more, but we’d only need to buy halve as many cars. However, given the bottleneck is clearly in earning credits, not spending them, this seems a foolish optimisation that is far too expensive.

References

  1. https://forza.labsgg.com/cars/1984-peugeot-205-turbo-16 ↩

  2. https://forza.labsgg.com/cars/1998-subaru-impreza-22b-sti-version ↩ ↩2

  3. https://forza.labsgg.com/cars/2024-lamborghini-revuelto ↩

  4. https://forza.labsgg.com/forza-horizon-6/wheelspin-stats ↩ ↩2