How to Get Elite Tokens in CSR2 – Green, Blue, Red & Yellow Guide

What Elite Tokens Actually Unlock

Once you've maxed a car's regular upgrades and fusions, most players stop there. Elite Customs lets you keep going. It's a separate system where you spend elite tokens to push specific cars even further — unlocking more fusion slots, extra visual customisation options like new paints and wheels, and in some cases improving the car's star rating.

Not every car is eligible for Elite Customs — it's a specific list. The ones that are can go up to Elite Level 50. Each level costs tokens, and reaching Level 50 gives the car extra fusion slots plus customisation options you can't get any other way. Performance-wise, a Level 50 elite build beats a non-elite version of the same car.

The Four Token Types — Green, Blue, Red, and Yellow

There are four token types, colour-coded: green, blue, red, and yellow. They're not interchangeable — the game asks for specific colours at different Elite Level thresholds.

Green tokens are the most common and easiest to find. They're used in the early Elite Levels and come from the widest variety of events. When you first start with Elite Customs, greens are what you'll mostly be collecting.

Blue tokens are needed as your Elite Level climbs. They're less common than greens — fewer events hand them out, and in smaller amounts. This is usually where things start slowing down.

Red tokens are harder again. They come from fewer sources, and getting the milestone rewards that include them takes real effort. Once your car needs reds to level up, you're looking at weeks of farming rather than days.

Yellow tokens are the rarest. They mainly show up in the top performance brackets of Showdowns and the upper reward tiers of the Weekly Elite Cup. If you're playing casually and not pushing hard into event rankings, yellows come in very slowly.

You can convert lower tokens into higher ones in the Elite Customs menu, but the rates are pretty bad. You'll burn a lot of greens to get a few blues. It's worth doing if you have a big surplus of lower tokens, but don't rely on it as your main strategy.

Showdowns — The Primary Farming Ground

Showdowns are your best regular source of elite tokens. They give them out in two ways.

First, participation rewards — the more races you run, the more tokens you get. It doesn't matter how you place. Just race a lot and greens and blues add up. Easy to do on any event.

Second, trophy milestones — these are based on winning. Hit enough trophy milestones and you unlock reward tiers, with reds and yellows appearing at the higher levels. Your car quality and shift timing actually matter here. Casual racing gets you greens and blues. Competing hard gets you the rarer stuff.

Weekly Elite Cup — Why Your Crew Matters Here

The Weekly Elite Cup is one of the best regular sources for all four token types — but it runs on crew performance, not individual. The more your crew does as a group, the better the rewards everyone gets.

Active crews that finish well in the WEC get tokens shared across all participating members, including reds and yellows. In a competitive crew, this becomes a reliable weekly income of all four token types. If you're solo or in a dead crew, you're basically cut off from this source entirely.

If Elite Customs progression matters to you, joining an active crew is genuinely one of the most impactful things you can do. The difference in monthly token income between a solo player and someone in a good crew is significant.

Token Cups, Supply Cups, and Event Maps

Check your event map regularly. Shorter events that hand out elite tokens specifically — sometimes called Token Cups — pop up fairly often. What type of tokens they give and how hard the milestones are varies, but they're worth grabbing when they appear.

Supply Cups during big event windows also sometimes include tokens. They come and go fast, so just checking the event map each time you open the game is usually enough to not miss them.

Story events and seasonal events also sometimes have tokens in their deeper milestone tiers. They don't always advertise this up front, so it's worth scrolling through the full milestone list before deciding how far to push an event.

Elite Tuners Events

Elite Tuners events are story-based events that specifically reward elite tokens as you progress through them. They're tied to specific cars, so if the featured car is one you're levelling through Elite Customs, the token rewards can be a real help.

These aren't always active — availability rotates with the season. When one pops up for a car you actually race, jump on it.

Why Token Progression Is Time-Gated by Design

Elite Customs is slow by design. The amounts you get per event, the bad conversion rates, and how rarely reds and yellows appear all add up to make Elite Level 50 a weeks-or-months project — even for players actively farming every available source.

That's not a bug. Elite Level 50 is supposed to feel like an achievement, and the game gates it through time rather than skill. If you want to get a specific car to Level 50 quickly, the pace is usually the biggest obstacle.

Some players use a [csr2 mod service](https://csr2modding.com) to get elite tokens delivered directly instead of grinding through the event cycle. If you know exactly which car you're building and just need the tokens to finish it — especially when there's a competitive window closing — it's worth knowing that option is available.

How to Prioritise If Tokens Are Scarce

A few things that'll save you tokens in the long run:

Don't start Elite Customs on a car you're not actively racing. Every level costs tokens you'll want back later, and there's no refund for a car you shelve. Pick your main race car, focus there first.

Know which token type is holding you back. If it's reds, look at which specific events produce them and make those a priority. Same with yellows — when a Showdown that distributes yellows is live, run as many races as you can.

Only convert tokens when you have too many of a lower type and really need a small amount of the next one up. Converting 500 greens into a handful of blues to hit the next level is reasonable. Making it your main token strategy isn't.