CSR2 Collections Explained: Car Credits, Ranks and Rewards

For years, the only way to get many CSR2 cars was to wait for the right event or get lucky in a crate. Collections changed that. They let you buy specific cars with a currency you earn, and reward you for actually racing them. Here's how they work, based on Zynga’s own announcement of the feature.

What Collections are

A Collection is a group of cars with a shared theme. You acquire the cars, complete tasks with them, and rank the Collection up for rewards. Each Collection has a rarity that reflects how hard its cars are to get and how good its rewards are:

• Uncommon (green)
• Rare (blue)
• Epic (purple)

Everything lives in the Collections hub, which shows your progress, the Collections you’ve unlocked and what’s coming next.

Unlocking Collections

Collections open at level 60. Some start greyed out. To unlock one, either reach the Collection Rank it asks for or get any car from that Collection, whichever comes first.

Car Credits

Car Credits are the Collections currency, used to buy cars inside a Collection. That’s the big change: you can get a car on purpose instead of waiting for it to appear in an event.

You earn Car Credits from Collections Cups and Showdowns, and they can also be bought in the game.

Ranks, XP and tasks

Collections rank up with Collections XP, which you earn by completing tasks with each car. There are two kinds:

• Rookie task: acquire the car and lock it into the Collection.
• Veteran task: complete set challenges with the car. This unlocks extra rewards and gives that car a permanent RP boost.

Every rank-up pays out Keys, Cash, Gold or more Car Credits, and Collections Perks add permanent bonuses. Finish a whole Collection, every car acquired and every Veteran task done, and you get an exclusive profile sticker.

Getting the most out of Collections

Zynga’s own advice is to keep levelling Collections, because higher ranks unlock more cars to buy with Car Credits, and to complete Veteran tasks, because they let you earn the most Car Credits in Collections Cups. A few habits help on top of that:

• Do Veteran tasks on cars you already race. The RP boost is permanent, so it pays off most on the cars you use every day.
• Spend Car Credits on cars worth building. A car is only as good as its record. Check where it ranks on our world records sheet or in the best cars by tier list before you buy.
• Remember the build cost. Buying a car is the start. Stage 6 and fusion parts still come from crates and events; our fusion parts guide and keys guide cover both.
• Use the rank rewards. The Keys and Gold from rank-ups are a steady extra income, so plan crate runs around them.

The details, such as which cars sit in which Collection and what each costs, change as new Collections are added, so check the Collections hub in the game for the current line-up.

If the car you want isn’t in a Collection you can reach yet, every car in our car collection can be added to your own account, stock or fully maxed.

The short version

Collections unlock at level 60 and group cars by theme in three rarities. You buy cars with Car Credits, earned from Collections Cups and Showdowns, then complete Rookie and Veteran tasks to rank up. Veteran tasks give the car a permanent RP boost and help you earn the most Car Credits, and every rank-up pays Keys, Cash, Gold or Credits. Spend Credits on cars you’ll actually build and race.