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Season 5, Episode 1 — Originally aired on March 29th, 2004
- Vicky and Tiff find out what happens when you crash an old model of a car into a new model of a car and which fairs better
- Guest presenter Jason Plato (a British touring car champion) drives the new Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
- Tiff finds out which is fastest, the Citroën C2 GT or the Ford Sport Ka
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Season 5, Episode 2 — Originally aired on April 5th, 2004
- Adrian reviews the new Audi A6 in Italy
- A lookback at past car versus plane races – includes the race of Michael Schumacher in his Ferrari F1 race car versus a Euro Fighter
- Vicki goes to the Geneva Auto Show and checks out some cool cars – BMW Concept M5, Honda Sports Concept (new NSX?), Rolls-Royce 100EX, Land Rover concept Range Stormer; Fiat concept Trepiuno and Maserati MC12
- Tiff races a Gazelle helicopter around a track in a Porsche GT3
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Season 5, Episode 3 — Originally aired on April 12th, 2004
- Tiff talks about some people’s fear of driving and with some help from a car psychologist, helps cure a woman of her fears
- Tom reviews the awesome Aston Martin DB9, the best Aston Martin yet
- Vicki gets some NOS and makes a diesel Golf compete with a Honda NSX driven by Tiff
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Season 5, Episode 4 — Originally aired on April 19th, 2004
- Tiff and Vicki show what happens when tires blow, whether run flats are really any good and whether you can race on run flats
- Tom reviews the new Mercedes-Benz SLK
- Tiff sees which is faster around a track – a Mini Cooper or a diesel Skoda Fabia
- Vicki drives that British amphibious vehicle, the Gibbs Aquada
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Season 5, Episode 5 — Originally aired on April 26th, 2004
- Vicki, Adrian and Tom go out and look for the ultimate Mini and come across some very cool mini’s
- Tiff goes to Malaga in the south of Spain to drive Klaus Vort’s supercar, the Ascari KZ1 at his supercar track resort
- Tom talks about the new Land Rover Discovery
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Season 5, Episode 6 — Originally aired on May 3rd, 2004
- Tom goes to Maranello, Italy to see Frank Mountain buy and drive Michael Schumacher’s 2001 F1 car
- Tiff drives the new version of the Noble M12 GTO, the 3R
- Adrian visits one of Britain’s most secure car parks, the Bold Lane and shows how it works
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Season 5, Episode 7 — Originally aired on May 10th, 2004
- Tiff and Vicki find the best 4×4 available in Britain for under £20,000
- Returning guest presenter Jason Plato (a British touring car champion) drives the Chrysler 300C which has a Hemi!
- Adrian goes and meets Richard Hopkins, one of the top players in “World Rally Champonship 3″ for the Playstation 2 who is now trying out real rally racing
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Season 5, Episode 8 — Originally aired on May 17th, 2004
- Vicki and Tom head to Italy to test the new Maserati Quattroporte
- Tiff talks about car jumps and the science of it followed by a stunt driver trying to break the world record for the farthest distance jumped by a car towing a caravan
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Season 5, Episode 9 — Originally aired on May 24th, 2004
Celebrity Cars
- Tiff and Vicki go and visit Jay Kay from Jamiroquai (some British band I think) to view his car collection and race around in some buggies
- Tom reviews the new Peugeot 407
- Fifth Gear Shootout: Tiff races two vans against each other – a Ford Transit T280 and a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 213 CD1
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Season 5, Episode 10 — Originally aired on May 31st, 2004
- Fifth Gear checks out the British auto show – the Motor Show at Birmingham NEC
- Tom drives the new Volkswagen Beetle convertable
- Fifth Gear Shootout: Tiff races the Lotus Elise 111R against the Lotus built Vauxhall VX220 Turbo
- Adrian trys out Internet auto auctions
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