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Forza Horizon 6's Garage System offers more features than its predecessors, not only adding extra customization options but also expanding social functions - allowing you to admire your creations together with your friends.

The garage in Forza Horizon 6 lets you either save time by directly applying ready-made designs or craft a unique personal space of your own. Let's begin with the very first garage and see how you can build your very own car showroom.

Acquiring Property and Garages

To unlock the garage feature, you first need to own a property in the game. If you have obtained the premium upgrade, you can get a house for free. Otherwise, you will need a certain amount of Forza Horizon 6 credits to obtain one. Each house you acquire unlocks a brand-new, customizable garage attached to it.

Early in the game, you can unlock Mei's House at no cost. In total, there are eight residential properties available for trade and customization. The physical floor area of each garage is fixed and cannot be expanded, but a single garage can display up to four of your favorite cars at the same time.

There is also one large garage with 78 parking spaces. Together with the garages inside the other eight properties, your total collection capacity becomes quite impressive.

Building Your Own Garage

This is the core upgrade in FH6's gameplay, allowing you to decorate your garage much like in The Sims. Go to any residence, select Customize Garage tab at the top, and you will enter the decoration mode.

From your collection you can pick your favorite cars, adjust their positions and angles, use the precision free camera to fine-tune your view, and change the movement speed. Choose furniture and decorations from the item library and place them as you like.

Pressing Tab key brings up important options, including different floor and wall materials. If you make a mistake, use the selection mode to remove objects. However, you might encounter a minor bug from time to time; in that case, resetting the layout is the simplest solution.

If you are not satisfied with your current design, you can choose to reset the garage. The system will return some of your credits, letting you start over. This mechanism encourages you to experiment boldly without worrying about wasted resources.

Copying Others' Designs

Once you enter the garage interface, you will see several key options: Customize Garage, View Garage, Browse & Manage, and Display Vehicles. Among these, Browse & Manage actually points to the community garage - that is, a collection of ready-made designs uploaded by other players.

You can download and use complete garage layouts shared by other players. However, applying a downloaded design requires you to spend Forza Horizon 6 credits to acquire the decorations featured in it. You can preview the most popular schemes first; some player-favorite designs may need fewer credits than you expect.

It is important to note that once you have copied someone else's garage, you can no longer modify its layout. Nevertheless, you can always reset it and recover a portion of your credits.

If you feel your garage is missing some cool sports cars, you can participate in IGGM Forza Horizon 6 Cars Giveaway; the winner can choose any 5 cars for free!

Expanding Your Vehicle Collection

If you want to fill your garage with a variety of Forza Horizon 6 cars, exploration on the map is the primary way to acquire new vehicles, in addition to trading cars and using prize draws.

Barn Finds

There are 15 hidden classic old cars on the map. Once repaired, you can drive them away. After receiving a clue, a purple circle appears on the map. Enter that area and focus on looking for unmarked dirt roads - they usually lead directly to the barn.

Treasure Cars

The map contains 9 treasure cars, one per zone. Finding these is more challenging because the system gives only a vague photo as a clue, forcing you to interpret the location yourself. As soon as you receive the clue, switch to the drone's top-down view - it can greatly improve your search efficiency.

Aftermarket Cars

Discounted second-hand cars appear at random locations on the map. When you approach one, the mini-map shows a green car icon with a CR label. These vehicles refresh randomly, so it is worth checking back from time to time.

Property-Specific Rewards

Acquiring certain houses grants special buffs that allow you to obtain more cars and additional garage display slots:

• Mei's House: Unlocks Car Trader ability, enabling vehicle transactions at Auto Show.
• Soko 78: Rewards "Import & Export", giving a 5% discount when trading cars at Auto Show.
• Vision House: Rewards "Travel with Friends", which adds an extra 10% skill score when performing LINK skills.
• Akusan Mountain Lodge & Vision House: These two properties provide an "Extra Garage Slot" each, increasing the number of vehicle display slots in a garage by one.

While customizing your garage, you might accidentally trigger features such as Barn Finds or new Badges - for example, discovering a hidden classic vehicle. After completing your garage, you can enter photo mode and adjust the focus to capture your most satisfying angles.

If you have plenty of time, it is recommended to start from scratch, adding items one by one and tweaking the layout - enjoy the joy of creation. If you simply want a nice garage in a hurry, you can directly copy a popular, cost-effective design from Forza Horizon 6 community, saving both time and effort.

Many players transitioning from controllers to wheels in Forza Horizon 6 face a common challenge: the inability to accurately perceive speed, leading to frequent skidding or off-track maneuvers.

However, this change isn't a bad one. In fact, with proper vehicle physics and core driving techniques, you'll find that with optimized wheel settings, FH6's driving experience can highly realistically replicate real-world track conditions. Let's see how to optimize your wheel settings to truly maximize your vehicle's speed in FH6!

Difficulty Settings

To achieve true driver-machine integration in Forza Horizon 6, you must first disable all unnecessary computer intervention in the game's difficulty options, allowing the vehicle to exhibit its purest physical characteristics:

• Braking: Set to Anti-Lock Off. This allows you to clearly perceive the tires' critical points during high-intensity braking.
• Steering: Set to Simulation. Ordinary steering involves too much computer fine-tuning assistance, while Simulation provides the purest force feedback, allowing you to intuitively feel changes in wheel grip.
• Traction and Stability Control: Set to Off. With computer-assisted driving, it's difficult to judge the vehicle's dynamics. Only by turning them off can you learn how to use the accelerator and steering wheel to control the vehicle's critical point of loss of control.
• Shifting: Manual with Clutch recommended. While Automatic is a good choice for beginners, Manual is what you need if you want to truly master the vehicle.

Avoid these driving mistakes!

Next, before we begin, we must understand some common driving mistakes. In fact, the secret to increasing speed lies in smoothness; aggressive operation will only disrupt the weight transfer of the vehicle, causing instantaneous loss of control.

1. Slamming on the accelerator

Especially when dealing with high-horsepower vehicles, blindly applying the accelerator will only cause the rear wheels to instantly lose traction. Therefore, it is recommended that you imagine the accelerator pedal as stepping on an unbreakable egg; only by gradually applying power can you control the accelerator.

2. Excessive and Ineffective Oversteer

Please note that turning the steering wheel more is not necessarily better, especially when the vehicle is already understeer and the front wheels are overloaded. Continuing to turn the steering wheel excessively at this point is pointless.

3. Braking While Turning

Understeer often occurs because the driver attempts to brake and steer simultaneously. The front wheels cannot withstand two extreme forces at the same time. The correct approach is to brake hard on a straight line, release the brake, and then turn the steering wheel. This significantly shortens braking distance and improves cornering efficiency.

4. Engine Braking

When braking hard into a corner, it is recommended to downshift simultaneously. Manually downshifting while utilizing engine braking to assist deceleration not only provides stronger braking but also ensures the engine is in its optimal RPM range when exiting the corner, resulting in a perfect exit.

A top-tier car with excellent performance can help you avoid most problems in the early stages of the game. If you don't have a better option right now, IGGM can help you too! Recently, we launched a new Forza Horizon 6 cars giveaway on IGGM Discord. Simply participate and leave a car emoji for a chance to become one of 10 winners and choose any 5 cars you like!

Cornering Strategy

Another core aspect of racing in Forza Horizon 6 is cornering. Mastering the art of cornering is key to staying ahead of your competitors.

First, you must remember not to keep your eyes solely focused on the front of the car while driving. When entering a corner, keep your eyes on the apex; as you approach the apex, shift your gaze to the exit point; when exiting, look beyond the current point towards the next corner. The car will naturally gravitate in the direction your eyes are focused.

The apex is the point where the race car is closest to the inside of the corner. Before reaching the apex, your only task is to slow down and adjust the car's direction; after passing the apex, as the steering wheel gradually straightens, you can linearly accelerate.

By staying close to the outside of the track before entering the corner, making full use of its width, simply put, enter the corner late and exit early. While this late-entry strategy may seem to sacrifice entry speed, it results in a straighter car direction, allowing you to accelerate earlier and more aggressively when exiting the corner.

Drive Type & Cornering Differences

In FH6, different drive characteristics determine your throttle strategy when exiting corners:

Racing with Wheel Simulator in Forza Horizon 6 is not just about blindly pursuing the thrill of extreme braking and flooring the accelerator. Only by slamming on the brakes on the brakes just before the tires lock up on straightaways and maintaining stability in corners can you successfully navigate them and gain a commanding lead! Remember: every perfect corner exit depends on your absolute mastery of Wheel Simulator!