Fifth Gear
Popular award-winning series specializing in test driving the most glamorous dream cars and staging dramatic accident reconstructions. Home of the best drivers on TV - Tiff Needell, Jason Plato and Vicki Butler-Henderson, and expert car journalists Tom Ford and Jon Bentley.
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Fifth Gear: Series 6 ep. 1
Tonight Tiff Needell hosts a very special race when Fifth Gear commandeers London's City Airport to find the answer to this tantalising question. It's the ultimate showdown, a quarter mile drag between a Formula One car, a superbike and a racing powerboat. Also in tonight's show there's BMW's new 1-series.
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Fifth Gear: Series 6 ep. 2
The exclusive club of road cars capable of over 200mph includes such mouthwatering prospects as the Enzo Ferrari, the Pagani Zonda, the Lamborghini Murcielago, and the Porsche Carerra GT. Also in tonights show, the new Ford Focus. The old car has been an amazing success story. Since Ford started selling it in 1998 its won no less than 75 car awards, its been car of the year on both sides of the Atlantic, and its been Britains best-seller for the last six years.
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Fifth Gear: Series 6 ep. 3
Vicki Butler-Henderson, Tiff Needell and Jason Plato will be testing three of the most economical cars on the market. Theres the petrol-powered Daihatsu Charade, the diesel-powered Citroen C2 and the hybrid Toyota Prius which runs on a combination of battery power and petrol. And theres a roadtest of the car Tiffs been waiting for, the new Porsche 911.
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Fifth Gear: Series 6 ep. 6
Chris Ryan is famous for his heroic exploits in the SAS. Whats less well known is that he is also a passionate car enthusiast and a keen fan of Tiff Needells driving on Fifth Gear. In tonights show Chris gives us an insight into the SAS driving techniques that help keep you alive in the worlds troublespots, while Tiff helps Chris with some more tips on how to get the most out of high performance cars. Vicki Butler-Henderson attempts to drive flat out in Aston Martins new Vanquish S. The 520bhp, £175,000-plus super-coupe accelerates from 0-60 in 4.8 seconds and is capable of over 200mph. Will she find a piece of tarmac long enough to flex the muscles of this extraordinarily potent car?
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Fifth Gear: Series 6 ep. 7
One of the fastest-growing areas of the car market is for small MPVs cars that cram up to seven seats in the road space occupied by a small hatchback. Were buying more of the things than ever before sales are up by a third this year. In this weeks Fifth Gear Vicki Butler-Henderson and Tom Ford test the ones that carry the most people the six-seater Honda FRV and Fiat Multipla, and the seven-seater Renault Grand Scenic, Toyota Corolla Verso, Vauxhall Zafira, and Volkswagen Touran. Tiff Needell meets motor racing legend Jackie Stewart, winner of no less than three Formula One world championships and 27 Grands Prix, the first millionaire racing driver, and opinionated as ever. Jackie tells us why the sixties and seventies were the golden age of motor racing.
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Fifth Gear: Series 7 ep. 1
In this first programme of the new series, Vicki Butler-Henderson is taught some tricks of the trade by a Hollywood stunt crew. Shell learn how to be knocked over by a car and how to jump from one moving vehicle to another. Tiff Needell and Jason Plato are the professional drivers whose opinions on new cars are amongst the most trusted in the industry. In this show they turn their attention to the new Porsche Boxster which Tiff describes as being nearly perfect. The thorn in its side is the super fast BMW Z4, so the boys duke it out on the track to find out whats best. Two top drivers, two fast cars and one major brake failure. Find out which car couldnt last the pace.
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Fifth Gear: Series 7 ep. 2
Tiff Needell reports from the Arctic Circle. It may seem unlikely, but the far north of Swedish Lapland is the winter car testing capital of the world. Vicki Butler-Henderson shows us what shes best at thrashing two expensive cars to within an inch of their life around a race track.Jason Plato is given his toughest mission yet to do one months motoring in 24 hours.
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Fifth Gear: Series 7 ep. 3
Jason Plato has been to Dubai for a world exclusive drive in the car that could well be Formula 1s biggest threat. Vicki Butler-Henderson pits the new £15,000 Mercedes A-Class against a range topping £65,000 Mercedes SL.Tiff Needell has driven most of the cars in real life so is in the perfect position to test the games realism which he does by challenging the legendary Kazunori to a virtual race.
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Fifth Gear: Series 7 ep. 5
Vicki Butler-Henderson finds out exactly how easy it is to control this £160,000 beast by putting it in the hands of a complete novice - in fact someone who is only licensed to drive automatics - her mother. Tom Ford follows Frank to see exactly what its like to live with a car like this. Frank Mountain is the millionaire property developer and Fifth Gear fan who last year bought Michael Schumachers Formula 1 car.
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Fifth Gear: Series 7 ep. 7
Tiff Needell teams up with supermodel Jodie Kidd to race a Maserati at the Monza grand prix circuit in Italy. Vicki Butler-Henderson pits two rich mans track cars against each other: the Noble M400 and the Mitsubishi Evo FQ400 on a track. Tom Ford tests the chic new Peugeot 1007 which comes with innovative sliding doors, and Jon Bentley debunks some common myths about diesels.
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Fifth Gear: Series 8 ep. 1
Tiff Needell test drives the new Aston Martin V8 Vantage, billed as the most desirable sportscar in the world. Tom Ford gets involved by bidding for Michael Schumachers race seat its made of pure carbon fibre and is backed with gold leaf. Vicki Butler-Henderson heads to our Anglesey test track to race a Porsche 911 against the latest Lotus Exige for the latest in Fifth Gears popular Shoot-Out feature.
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Fifth Gear: Series 8 ep. 2
Tiff Needell gets to drive a Williams Formula 1 Grand Prix car finding out first hand what the glamorous drivers of these racing machines have to go through. Vicki Butler-Henderson in a BMW M5 road car. Both cars have V10 engines, 7 speed gearboxes and are capable of speeds in excess of 200mph. But who will win the race? Jason Plato gets a worlds first test drive in the £380,000 Pagani Zonda F.
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Fifth Gear: Series 8 ep. 3
Tiff Needell drives the fastest car in the world, the Koenigsegg CCR. The Bentley Continental Flying Spur goes on a tour of Britain, and the team enter (and win!) the first ever 24 hour race at Silverstone.
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Fifth Gear: Series 8 ep. 4
Jason Plato tests the new Mercedes-Benz S Class. Tom Ford is at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.Vicki Butler-Henderson welcomes Michael Schumacher to the show, for his only British television appearance this year.
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Fifth Gear: Series 8 ep. 5
Vicki Butler-Henderson pays tribute to the most underrated supercar of all time the Honda NSX. Jason Plato tests the brand new £115,000 Aston Martin DB9 Volante, one of the fastest cabriolets on sale today.Tiff Needell reports on fifth Gears project to build a 200mph car.
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Fifth Gear: Series 8 ep. 7
Tiff tests this grand tourers handling through the dramatic scenery of Snowdonia in Wales.Vicki Buler-Henderson meanwhile has jetted off to Portugal to drive the new Mazda MX5.Jon Bentley reveals the tricks of the trade used by the road traffic accident investigators.
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Fifth Gear: Series 8 ep. 8
Jason Plato gets an exclusive drive in the new Ford Focus ST. Tiff Needell takes to streets of London to map out his course for a London Grand Prix. Jon Bentley finds out if roadblocks work in real life like they do in the movies.
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Fifth Gear: Series 8 ep. 9
The A537 from Macclesfield to Buxton is the most dangerous road in Britain. Tiff Needell sets out to see whether its possible to drive along this road safely and aims to enjoy it by taking the first Porsche Cayman in the country. Tom Ford takes the Pepsi Challenge with the fastest diesels in the world.
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Fifth Gear: Series 9 ep. 1
Playboy racing driver Jason Plato helps a lottery winner choose a new supercar, Tiff Needell road tests the new Jaguar XK on the best road in the world, and Tom Ford meets Jenson Button at the Geneva Motorshow.
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Fifth Gear: Series 9 ep. 2
Vicki Butler-Henderson is at the Anglesey circuit doing what she does best, driving cars incredibly fast. A touch of nostalgia creeps in to the show as Tiff Needell and Jason Plato don their goggles to try out a couple of fifties style Le-Mans racers.
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Fifth Gear: Series 9 ep. 4
An exclusive insight into Americas most glamorous supercar club, based in an underground bunker at a private jet airport. Tiff Needell and Jason Plato race the BMW M3 against the Audi RS4, the truth behind a new internet scheme that promises to save you money of your petrol, and the opportunity to win the sexiest car launched this year, the Alfa Romeo Brera.
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Fifth Gear: Series 9 ep. 5
We reveal the Best Cheap Car in Britain, meet the man whos giving away a free Ferrari to try and help sell his house, a look round the countrys ultimate supercar collection and an investigation to see if you can really go flat out on the German autobahns.
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Fifth Gear: Series 9 ep. 6
Jason Plato teaches Girls Aloud how to become racing drivers, but it all ends in tears when Sarah crashes a Ferrari. Tiff Needell drives the new Maserati Quattroporte, and Tom Ford tries to break the world record for doing donuts in a car.
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Fifth Gear: Series 9 ep. 7
Vicki Butler-Henderson learns how to become a spy photographer as she goes undercover trying to snap car manufacturers secret prototypes. Tom Ford is in Japan driving the car of the future where the only thing that comes out of the exhaust is water. Tiff Needell drives the new Corvette Z06 and Jason Plato drives the new Volkswagen Eos cabriolet in Athens.
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Fifth Gear: Series 9 ep. 8
Vicki Butler-Henderson finds out exactly how well built a Mercedes is when she crashes it, drowns it in a flood and then drives over it in a monster truck. Tom Ford is in Japan at the motorway services which are more like a nightclub, and we meet Nick Freeman, the lawyer who gets footballers off their speeding tickets, to hear his tricks of the trade.
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Fifth Gear: Series 9 ep. 9
We find out what happens if you accidentally put diesel into a petrol engine, and follow Tiff Needell as he races an Aston Martin DBR9S. Jason Plato finds out if the new Lexus GS450 hybrid is so quiet you can literally hear a pin drop inside
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Fifth Gear: Series 9 ep. 10
Tiff Needell and Tom Ford test the new Citroen C6 by recreating the President de Gaulle assassination attempt with professional gunmen, Vicki Butler-Henderson gets involved in a dramatic Rallycross race, and Tim Lovejoy joins the team to interview Pete Docherty's old bandmates Dirty Pretty Things about rock 'n roll cars.
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Fifth Gear: Series 9 ep. 11
Tom Ford flies out on Alan Sugar's private jet to test the brand new Audi TT, Vicki Butler-Henderson attempts a new land speed record with six pensioners, and Tiff Needell enters the inaugural D1GB drifting competition.
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Fifth Gear: Series 9 ep. 12
Jason Plato tests the new 911 Turbo, Vicki Butler-Henderson presents a high speed crash test, and Tom Ford drives a new Lamborghini.
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Fifth Gear: Series 9 ep. 13
In the series finale we bring you the ultimate supercar battle when we pitch the awesome McLaren F1 against the almighty Enzo Ferrari. Jason Plato tries his hand at flying a stunt plane, and Tom Ford takes a road trip in the Ferrari 599.
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