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Season 9, Episode 1 — Originally aired on April 10th, 2006
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Season 9, Episode 2 — Originally aired on April 17th, 2006
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Season 9, Episode 3 — Originally aired on April 24th, 2006
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Season 9, Episode 4 — Originally aired on May 1st, 2006
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Season 9, Episode 5 — Originally aired on May 8th, 2006
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Season 9, Episode 6 — Originally aired on May 15th, 2006
- Tiff heads to Italy to drive the latest version of the Maserati Quattroporte, the Sport GT which features a much better gearbox
- Jason gives the girls of the pop group Girls Aloud a lesson in driving supercars on a racing circuit which ends in a crash (who woulda guessed?)
- Jon Bentley investigates how young drivers can get cheaper insurance rates
- Fifth Gear Shootout: Vicki races the BMW M5 against the BMW M6
- Tom participates in a world record attempt for the most number of cars doing donuts simultaneously
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Season 9, Episode 7 — Originally aired on May 22nd, 2006
- Fifth Gear follows around Britain’s leading automotive spy photographer for a day to see what his life is like
- Jason drives the new Volkswagen Eos, a hard top convertible, in Athens
- Guest presenter Holly Samos reports from the start line of the Gumball 3000
- Fifth Gear Reverse Gear Shootout: Tiff races a Volkswagen Golf GTi against a Skoda Octavia vRS, all in reverse gear!
- Tom drives the fuel cell powered Honda FCX
- Tiff learns that not all American cars are crap thanks to the Chevrolet Corvette Z06
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Season 9, Episode 8 — Originally aired on May 29th, 2006
- Vicki tests out how reliable a 16 year-old Mercedes E Class estate (station wagon) by giving it some very serious punishment
- Tom visits a service station in Tokyo where at night, some crazy cars show up for a car party
- Behind the scenes of the car stunts in M:I:III (Mission Impossible: III)
- A look at the day in the life of Nick Freeman, a hugely successful defense lawyer who’s been dubbed “Mr. Loophole” because of his ability find holes in the law
- Tiff gives the brand new 620 horsepower Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano a thrashing about in Italy
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Season 9, Episode 9 — Originally aired on June 5th, 2006
- Jason drives the Lexus GS450h, the first high performance hybrid
- Tom sees if 22 people can cram into the new Fiat Grande Punto, a small city car
- An update on the winners of all of the cars given away this season by Fifth Gear
- A small teaser trailer of a segment that will shown later in the year of behind the scenes of the new James Bond film, Casino Royale, and the new James Bond car, the Aston Martin DBS
- Tiff races an Aston Martin DBR9 at Silverstone in the brand new GT3 Championship, against rivals driving Ferraris, Porsches, Lamborghinis, Corvettes, Maseratis, and Ascaris
- Jon Bentley looks into what happens if you put the wrong fuel type into your car
- Vicki races a gas (petrol) powered Vauxhall Astra VXR against a tuned diesel powered one driven by Paul O’Neill, an aspiring racing driver and brother of former Spice Girl, Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice)
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Season 9, Episode 10 — Originally aired on July 3rd, 2006
- Fifth Gear Shootout: Tiff races a BMW 130i M Sport against a Volkswagen Golf R32
- Tom examines the new Citroen C6 and gets driven around by Tiff while having a flat tire
- Vicki does some budget racing in Rallycross
- Jason drives the latest generation of the Honda Legend and pits it against it’s rivals, the Audi A6 and a BMW 530i
- Guest presenter Tim Lovejoy asks Carl and Didz from the rock band Dirty Pretty Things to pass judgement on the new Radford Mini
- Tom’s final report from Japan where this time he visits the world’s largest car dealership which is actually more like a theme park than an actual car dealership
- Vicki finishes off the Mercedes E Class from a previous episode
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Season 9, Episode 11 — Originally aired on July 10th, 2006
- Vicki attempts to set a new world record for the most distance traveled in one hour by seven people in a mini-MPV (minivan)
- Tiff races a Dakar rally BMW motorcycle with it’s BMW X5 support vehicle to see which would win on a known offroad course, the 4×4 or the motorcycle
- Jon Bentley gives a 60 second driving review of the Volkswagen EcoRacer
- Tom flies to Austria in Alan Sugar’s private jet to test drive the new Audi TT on the road up Austria’s highest mountain, Großglockner
- Conclusion of the Fifth Gear concept car competition where the winner is announced
- Tiff learns to drift and enters the UK’s inaugural Drifting competition, the D1GP, in a 590 BHP 1991 Toyota Soarer which is fitted with a turbo from a truck
- Jason drives the very quick Brook Double R, a brand new British sportscar which is styled like a 60’s grand prix racer, on Britain’s bendiest road
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Season 9, Episode 12 — Originally aired on July 17th, 2006
- Vicki examines all things braking including the differences between different people when it comes to braking and how much worn tires affect your braking in the wet
- Jason drives the awesome new Porsche 911 Turbo
- Behind the scenes of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
- Tiff teaches Tom to drive a Lamborghini Gallardo really fast around a track in order to bring his skills up to the Fifth Gear standards
- Jon Bentley checks out the top three ultimate car sound systems and evaluates each
- Vicki races two small pickup trucks, the Mitsubishi L200 and the Nissan Navara (aka the Nissan Frontier), against each other offroad
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Season 9, Episode 13 — Originally aired on July 24th, 2006
- Vicki tests the limited edition BMW 320Si which was made to celebrate BMW’s success in the World Touring Car Championships
- Jason finds out if the skills of a racing driver will transfer to the cockpit of a aerobatic stunt plane
- Tiff drives a race-spec McLaren F1 and a Ferrari Enzo on public roads
- Behind the scenes of the Pixar film Cars
- Jon Bentley examines a new safety device for motorcyclists, an airbag jacket
- Tom drives the new Ferrari 599 1200 miles from Belgium back home to the Ferrari factory in Italy
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