Top Locations for Great Speed Skills in Forza Horizon 6

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If you are trying to farm Great Speed Skills in Forza Horizon 6, location matters more than most players think. You can have the fastest car in the game, but if the road is full of tight corners, traffic, or elevation changes, keeping a clean high-speed run becomes frustrating fast.

After spending a lot of time testing different areas around the map, the best place to consistently earn Great Speed Skills is easily the main Motorway. It gives you long uninterrupted stretches where you can stay flat out for several seconds without constantly braking or dodging obstacles.

For players working on Festival Playlist objectives, Horizon Play challenges, or simply farming Skill Points, these are the locations worth using.

Why the Motorway Is the Best Speed Skill Location

The main highway running across Japan is the most reliable place to trigger Great Speed, Awesome Speed, and Ultimate Speed skills back-to-back.

The biggest reason is simple: space. The road is wide, mostly straight, and designed for sustained top-speed driving. In an S1 or S2-class car, it becomes very easy to stay above the speed threshold needed for the skill chain.

Most players seem to trigger Great Speed Skills consistently once they hold speeds around 150 mph (241 km/h) or higher for several seconds. Faster cars can chain the skills almost endlessly if traffic cooperates.

Another reason the Motorway works so well is that it naturally supports combo farming. You are not limited to Speed Skills alone.

During long runs you can also combine:

Near Miss Skills by weaving through traffic
Wreckage Skills by smashing breakable barriers
Sideswipe Skills from light contact
Drift Skills during sweeping highway curves

That combination makes the highway one of the best all-around Skill Point farming routes in the game.

Best Sections of the Motorway

Not every highway section feels equally good. Some areas have heavier traffic or tighter curves.

The best sections are usually:

Long elevated stretches outside the city
Areas with fewer intersections
Multi-lane sections with open visibility
Slight downhill portions where cars naturally gain speed

Late at night or during lighter traffic conditions, maintaining Ultimate Speed chains becomes much easier.

If you crash, simply use rewind or reset and continue the run.

Tokyo Outskirts and Open Fields

Another surprisingly good location is the open farmland outside Tokyo’s dense urban zone.

These areas are less consistent than the highway, but they are excellent if you like combining multiple skill types during free roam.

The terrain is flatter than expected, and there is enough open space to maintain speed while mixing in jumps, drifts, and wreckage chains.

This area works especially well for rally builds, AWD cars, and vehicles with strong acceleration instead of pure top speed.

You can build chains like:

Great Speed
Drift
Air
E-Drift
Wreckage

all in one combo without stopping.

It feels more chaotic than the Motorway, but also more fun if you get bored of straight-line farming.

EventLab Routes for Instant Speed Skills

If you do not want to deal with traffic at all, EventLab blueprints are probably the fastest method available right now.

A lot of community-made tracks are specifically designed for Skill Point farming. These usually place rows of breakable objects along a straight path so your combo stays alive while you build speed.

One of the most popular setups is:

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The route is basically built for nonstop skill chaining. With assists like Auto-Steer enabled, you can focus almost entirely on throttle control while the game feeds you skill multipliers.

For Festival Playlist objectives that require Great Speed Skills quickly, this is much faster than standard free roam driving.

It is not the most exciting way to play, but it works.

Best Cars for Great Speed Skills

The ideal car for Speed Skills is not always the absolute fastest vehicle. Stability matters just as much.

You want a car that:

Reaches 150+ mph quickly
Stays controllable at high speed
Recovers easily after traffic avoidance
Has useful Car Mastery perks

Here are some strong options players are using right now.

1998 Subaru Impreza 22B-STI Version

1998 Subaru Impreza 22B-STI Version

This car is popular because of its Skill Multiplier perk setup. The mastery tree can push your multiplier higher than usual, making long skill chains far more rewarding.

It is also stable enough for highway driving without feeling too heavy.

1994 Mazda MX-5 Forza Edition

1994 Mazda MX-5 Forza Edition

This is one of the easiest cars for rapid acceleration-based speed farming.

It launches extremely hard and reaches Speed Skill thresholds quickly, which makes it ideal for short highway bursts and EventLab farming routes.

Lamborghini Diablo

Lamborghini Diablo

The Diablo remains one of the better high-speed choices because it stays surprisingly stable even near top speed.

For long uninterrupted highway runs, stability often matters more than raw acceleration.