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Season 12, Episode 1 — Originally aired on September 3rd, 2007
- Shootout: Vicki races the brand new Audi S5 against the BMW 335i
- Jason teaches Kyran Bracken how to drive on a track and then lets him have a go in an open-wheeled Formula Palmer Audi race car
- Tom drives the new Maserati GranTurismo coupe on some beautiful roads in Italy
- Jonny drives the incredibly small, but expensive, 4-door Mitsubishi “i” and then tries to get the same thing for less money by bolting two Smart cars on top of each other which ends in a hilarious result
- Tiff heads to the French chateau where the Bugatti Veyron is assembled and gets to drive one on both the streets and the track where he gets it a bit sideways!
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Season 12, Episode 2 — Originally aired on September 10th, 2007
- Vicki compares the new Peugeot 207 GTi against a classic Peugeot 205 GTi to see if it really does live up to the old car
- Jonny road tests the new £350,000, 207mph Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Roadster
- Tiff and Jason put the Audi R8 and the Porsche 911 Carrera 4S head-to-head
- Fifth Gear meets up with Paddy McGuinness once again as he prepares for and takes his motorcycle test
- Man looks at what happens when a big, 15 year old Volvo 940 estate crashes into a small, light, 3 year old Renault Modus which has a 5 star Euro NCAP safety rating
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Season 12, Episode 3 — Originally aired on September 17th, 2007
- Australian cricket player Shane Warne gets a track driving lesson from Jason
- Fifth Gear Shootout: Vicki races the UK spec Honda Civic Type R against the harder core Japanese version
- Tom and Jonny put the new Mini Cooper D (diesel) against the petrol version to see which is better
- Tiff races the new Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera head-to-head against British superbike racer Leon Haslam on a Ducati 1098
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Season 12, Episode 4 — Originally aired on September 24th, 2007
- Vicki finds out if a police driver is as fast as a racing driver by spending a day with a police trainer
- Jason takes Sarah Beeny out in a Volvo Globetrotter semi-truck and challenges her to a maneuverability trial
- Tiff goes powersliding in the brand new BMW M3
- Jonny finds out if some of Britain’s cheapest cars can make it to the top of Britain’s steepest road when fully loaded
- Tom gets his hands on the keys to a Phantom Drophead Coupe and offers the car’s services out on a local radio station to good causes
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Season 12, Episode 5 — Originally aired on October 1st, 2007
- Shootout: Vicki drives two Audi TTs — one with a manual gearbox, one with the semi-automatic double-clutch S-Tronic system — to see which is quickest around a track
- Fifth Gear puts fuel additives to the test to scientifically see if they really do improve engine performance or not
- Tom Ford drives the brand new Fiat 500
- Tiff takes the £225,000, 224 MPH Gumpert Apollo out on the track
- Jason goes offroading in the latest Bowler beast, the Nemesis
- Jonny meets up once again with the owner of the world’s fastest street legal car, a Vauxhall Victor named “Red Victor 1″, to see if they can break the quarter mile record
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Season 12, Episode 6 — Originally aired on October 8th, 2007
- Vicki takes Sally Boazman, Radio 2′s traffic announcer, out for a day at Bentley’s chauffeur school
- Jonny celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Deuce Coupe, the chopped and tuned versions of the 1932 Ford Model B
- Fifth Gear crashes the annual gathering of fast cars trying to beat the 0-60 MPH record to see if anyone can beat the current record of 3.07 seconds
- Tiff and Jason put the BMW Z4 and Nissan 350Z head to head on the track
- Jonny test the new Mini Clubman in Madrid
- Tom drives an insane Smart Car monster truck which uses Unimog parts
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Season 12, Episode 7 — Originally aired on October 15th, 2007
- Shootout: a “General Lee” Dodge Charger vs. a Ford Gran Torino from “Starsky and Hutch”
- Jonny and Tom build drift cars from a pair of Bedford Rascal vans which ends in a bad crash
- Tiff drives the brand new Subaru Impreza and sees if it lives up to it’s ancestors
- Jason drives the Caparo T1, a street legal race car, which ends in the car catching on fire and burning Jason
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Season 12, Episode 8 — Originally aired on October 22nd, 2007
- To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, Tom and Jonny build an armored version of one
- Tiff heads to Ferrari’s test track in Modena to see if the new Ferrari 430 Scuderia is faster than a Ferrari Enzo
- Fifth Gear Awards including best small car, best family car, best fast car, and best overall car of the year
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