This Holiday Rewards Will Make Your Heart (and Garage) Grow Three Sizes!

4 December 2025- Playground Games

Four muscle cars return to the Festival

bringing big engines with horsepower several.

Find and capture the weekly snowman

appearing in houses you need to scan!

Decorations and cars, what more can we ask

Earn plenty of points, completing seasonal tasks!

Purple and yellow Horizon Holidays banner featuring the Guanajuato basilica.

Horizon Wonderland

Visit the Horizon Wonderland in Mulegé, a holiday-themed marketplace where you can access the Forzathon Shop and enjoy the festive makeover. Be sure to look out for a large gift box by the church, as that means you have a present to collect.

You’ll also find holiday decorations across Mexico including Christmas trees, lights and candy canes, as well as Snowman collectibles. We’ve even hidden some at Player Houses. Find them to complete the weekly Photo Challenges.

Don’t forget to visit the Ice Rink Stadium! The Horizon Stadium is fully transformed for the holidays with an icy playground to slide around with your friends, a hockey puck, and festive decorations.

Brightly lit snowman at the Horizon Wonderland Holiday Market at Mulege.

Festival Playlist

Get ready for a holiday-themed Festival Playlist with special events to mark the season.

2013 Cadillac XTS Limousine

A black Cadillac XTX Limousine is parked in front of city stairs. — Earn 80 PTS during the Horizon Holidays Festival Playlist. Available from Dec. 4 – January 1.

One advantage this Cadillac XTS Limousine has is its length. You are not going to just fly by this vehicle. It’s long. When toting around VIPs, you need a limousine and that’s where this rig comes in. Plunk down in its luxurious interior and watch a movie as the driver puts in a few laps or use it as a canvas for an elongated livery. With 300 horsepower in the stock version – and don’t forget you can upgrade this thing with a NASCAR engine – it’s no slouch. If you want to practice your cornering skills, the Limo will give you a new perspective on watching out behind you. Simply put, this is one hulking and fancy piece of machinery that’s certain to get you across Mexico in style and raise a fair share of eyebrows along the way. All the more reason to have it in your Forza Horizon 5 garage we say.

1971 AMC Javelin AMX

FH5-AMC_JavelinAMX-01-16x9_WM — Earn 20 PTS during the Summer “Wet” Season on the Horizon Holidays Festival Playlist. Available from Dec. 4 – Dec. 11.

Those huge fender arches? They’re to fit oversize race tires. The long deck? That’s for the 401 CID, Trans-Am-inspired V8 packing a four-barrel carburetor capable of 330 horsepower. From the crease running down the flanks to the quad taillights hooded by a ducktail spoiler, the AMC Javelin AMX was one of the more audacious pony cars to drive for dominance on the drag strip and the race circuit at the height of the muscle car era. Despite odds stacked up against the small, independent automaker in the face of the Big Three, the Javelin and its AMX derivative smoked them in Trans-Am racing, taking the checkered flag in eight of the ten races of the 1971 season, with Mark “Captain Nice” Donahue behind the wheel of many of them. The Javelin AMX distilled the racing success into one of the most exciting, and certainly one of the most distinctive, muscle cars to rumble out onto the scene. Whether you line up for a quarter-mile or swap paint with its Trans-Am rivals out on the track, the coupe from Kenosha is a potent competitor.

1958 Plymouth Fury

Only a car with the beautiful lines of the 1958 Plymouth Fury could have inspired the kind of obsession expressed in Stephen King’s “Christine.” While this Fury may not be possessed, this much chrome, this much tailfin, and a 305hp Golden Commando V8 under the hood are worthy of close appreciation. Sure, this Fury is a huge hunk of glistening metal that is best driven in a straight line, and it may lack braking and turning performance, but who cares? The Fury is gorgeous, and it represents an era where cars were designed to be alluring and gas prices were not an issue. Besides, once you feel the float of this boat going down the straightaway, winning may become less of a priority.

1973 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am SD-455

Pontiac Firebird TransAm SD455 on a dirt road — Earn 20 PTS during the Winter “Dry” Season on the Horizon Holidays Festival Playlist. Available from Dec. 18 – Dec. 25.

Literally the last breath from the muscle car era, the Super-Duty 455 was the dream of a few enthusiastic Pontiac engineers wanting to maintain the performance image of the brand. This was done in the face of the OPEC oil crisis and GM management that had no stomach for anything that didn’t effuse economy. So, the SD-455 was snuck in as an option for Formula and Trans-Am models. While out-the-door performance was hindered by a mild camshaft and restrictive exhaust manifolds, the SD-455 was the perfect starter kit for anyone seeking to find and unleash horsepower. Underneath the emissions-friendly components are a heavily fortified block, forged steel connecting rods, forged aluminum pistons, and modified cylinder heads. Basically, this wolf just needs its sheep’s clothing to be stripped off to really roar.

1970 AMC Rebel 'The Machine'

An AMC Rebel 'The Machine' is posed for a shot in front of a desert landscape. — Earn 20 PTS during the Spring “Hot” Season on the Horizon Holidays Festival Playlist. Available from Dec. 25 – Jan. 1.

AMC was notorious for taking on the big three in its own way. When it came to the muscle car market, the AMC approach was unique with performance that could give the big boys a run for their money. “The Machine” came with a flamboyant red, white, and blue paint scheme that made as much of statement as its 340-horsepower V8. From the factory this Rebel was poised as a street legal drag race car and could run mid-14s in the quarter mile. The distinctive ram-air hood scoop and hood-mounted tachometer contributed to the car’s performance-minded attitude. “The Machine” was no poseur; developed in collaboration with Hurst Performance, it could put down the power via the “Twin-Grip” Positraction style differential. AMC always did things delightfully different, and this definitive muscle car is a perfect example.

Horizon Backstage Vote

The festive showdowns happening for the next four weeks are set! Plan ahead and vote for your favorite car pairs to become available for purchase at the Horizon Backstage.

Week 1 (December 4 – December 11):

2007 Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione AND 2006 Mercedes-Benz E 55 AMG Wagon

VERSUS

2009 Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Black Series AND 2018 Audi RS 4 Avant