Nine free cars are sitting somewhere on Forza Horizon 6's Japan map right now, and most players will drive straight past at least a few of them. No grinding, no credits required. You just need to know where to look.
Forza Horizon 6 spreads its 9 Treasure Cars across all nine of the game's regions, one per area. The moment you reveal enough of a region's map, the game hands you a postcard clue showing the car and a visual hint of its location. From that point, it's yours to go find.
Treasure Car postcard clue
How Treasure Cars differ from Barn Finds
Here's the thing: Treasure Cars and Barn Finds feel similar on the surface, but the experience of collecting them is quite different. Barn Finds require restoration time (or spending credits to speed things up), and the car identity stays hidden until you track it down. Treasure Cars skip all of that.
When you find a Treasure Car, a short cutscene plays, the car gets a quick wash, and it lands directly in your garage. No waiting. No restoration queue. That makes them the faster and more immediately satisfying of the two collection systems.
There's also a meaningful XP incentive most players overlook. Spending a single skill point on each Treasure Car rewards 10,000 XP per car, the highest return of any car type in the game. Across all 9 cars, that's 90,000 XP available just from skill point spending alone.
You don't need to complete any specific story missions or reach a set progression milestone to unlock Treasure Cars. Exploring and revealing each region is all it takes.
The full lineup: what cars you're actually getting
The 9 Treasure Cars span a genuinely varied roster, from a delicate 1991 Nissan Figaro parked roadside in Tokyo City to a 1974 Lancia Stratos HF Stradale waiting outside a chalet in the snowy Sotoyama region. The full list covers some serious automotive highlights.
The 1987 Porsche 959 in Shimanoyama is reportedly one of the trickier finds, tucked behind a convenience store on the asphalt road at the back of a hilltop village. The 1969 Dodge Charger R/T in Minamino, on the other hand, sits just off the main road near the eastern edge of a golf course and is among the easiest to spot.
Japan map Treasure Car pin
What makes these cars worth tracking down
Beyond the Treasure Hunter achievement for collecting all 9, the cars themselves represent a solid cross-section of collector and performance vehicles. The 2005 Ford GT alone is a highlight for any garage, sitting in the Nangan region at the far end of a coastal dirt track. The 1981 BMW M1, found under a railway bridge in Hokubu north of the tunnels, is another that fans of classic European performance cars will want immediately.
What most players miss is that the postcard clue system is actually pretty generous once a region is revealed. The visual hints are specific enough that, combined with a map reference, none of the 9 should take more than a few minutes to locate.
For players working through the full collection, Treasure Cars pair naturally with the Barn Find hunt. The Forza Horizon 6 Barn Find locations guide covers all 15 of those, which do require the additional restoration step before the cars are driveable.
Region-by-region at a glance
Each of Japan's 9 regions holds exactly one Treasure Car, and the spread means you'll be collecting them naturally as you explore rather than backtracking to a single area. Tokyo City kicks things off with the Nissan Figaro. The Ito region's Wind Farm area hides the 1985 Nissan Safari Turbo at the base of a windmill. The Takashiro region's 1995 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution III waits at the end of a riverside dirt road just before a waterfall.
The key here is that map exploration does the heavy lifting. The game won't surface a Treasure Car clue until you've revealed enough of that region, so players who push into new areas quickly will unlock the postcard hints faster than those who stick to familiar roads.
For pinpoint coordinates and map screenshots for every single location, the complete Treasure Car locations guide has everything you need to collect all 9 without any guesswork.
