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Fifth Gear: Season 12

8 episodes Premiered Sep 3, 2007 Updated Sep 26, 2026

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Season 12 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Fifth Gear Season 11.
⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.

Season 12 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 12: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes

Core (5): Character development & subplots

Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler

S12·E1 Mytharc

Episode 1

Sep 3, 2007 · 60 min

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

S12·E2 Core

Episode 2

Sep 10, 2007 · 60 min

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 M

S12·E3 Core

Episode 3

Sep 17, 2007 · 60 min

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 vers

S12·E4 Core

Episode 4

Sep 24, 2007 · 60 min

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 challe

S12·E5 Core

Episode 5

Oct 1, 2007 · 60 min

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 pu

S12·E6 Core

Episode 6

Oct 8, 2007 · 60 min

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 tune

S12·E7 Mytharc

Episode 7

Oct 15, 2007 · 60 min

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 cras

S12·E8 Mytharc

Episode 8

Oct 22, 2007 · 60 min

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 F