Fifth Gear: Season 23
Season 23 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 22.
- 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.
Episode Guide
Season 23 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Sep 16, 2013 · 44 min
The team track test the most powerful diesel, the Range Rover V8. Plus, which of the new Cabrios combine supercar speed and movie-star glamour?
Episode 2
Sep 23, 2013 · 44 min
Jonny is in Spain to test the Jaguar F-type, the spiritual successor to a motoring legend. Jason turns car-doctor for the day, trying to bring a tired engine back to full health.
Episode 3
Sep 30, 2013 · 44 min
Jonny is given unprecedented access to the secret world of 21st century crash-testing before staging a spectacular van vs. car head on smash to reveal which vehicle is safest.
Episode 4
Oct 7, 2013 · 44 min
Tiff Needell is in Los Angeles to look into the new trend of restomodding. Jason takes on Brazilian ace-race Bruno Senna in the new Aston Martin Vanquish.
Episode 5
Oct 14, 2013 · 44 min
Vicky is in the Netherlands to test-drive the countries latest home-grown supercar, the Donkervoort D8 GTO. The team tests the brand-new Jaguar XF Sportbrake.
Episode 6
Oct 21, 2013 · 44 min
The team is joined by German racer “Queen of the Nürburgring” Sabine Schmitz to test-drive road legal extreme-machines, including the Caterham 7 Supersport R.
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Oct 28, 2013 · 44 min
The team is celebrating Aston Martin’s 100th anniversary. What is it really like to be behind the wheel of James Bond’s very own Aston Martin DB5?
Episode 8
Nov 4, 2013 · 44 min
It’s Jonny vs. Swedish touring car champion Frederik Ekblom. Jonny is driving the champion’s Volvo race car while Frederik drives its road car cousin, the Volvo S60 polestar.
Episode 9
Nov 11, 2013 · 44 min
Vicky is at the Nürburgring Grand Prix track in Germany, joining the crews of double European champion Jochen Hahn and former British Truck Racing Champion Dave Jenkins.
Episode 10
Feb 24, 2014 · 44 min
Tiff and Jason are joined by Bruno Senna for the fastest track test ever conducted on the show, between the new Porsche 911 Turbo, Nissan GTR and the brutal Noble M600.
Episode 11
Feb 18, 2013 · 60 min
Jason travels to Italy to take the Pagani Huayra sports car for a spin.
Episode 12
Mar 10, 2014 · 44 min
Jonny heads to the mecca of driving: the Indianapolis 500. Tiff takes on an Aston Martin in Mercs's new explosive hot hatch. Meanwhile Vicky visits a state of the art laboratory to
Episode 13
Mar 17, 2014 · 44 min
Tiff and Jason find out who makes autobahn best storming executive express. Jonny conducts a jumbo-sized test of the brand new Range Rover Sport. Meanwhile, the team find out if th
Episode E14
Mar 24, 2014 · 44 min
Former marine sniper Aldo Kane teaches Vicky the techniques of special forces driving. Then Jonny checks out a modified home version of a Capri that will challenge a Nissan GTR.
Episode 15
Mar 18, 2013 · 44 min
Vicki joins Norwegian rally driver Andreas Mikkelsen for a motoring triathlon.
Episode 16
Mar 25, 2013 · 44 min
Vicki travels to Italy to push the new Ferrari F12berlinetta sports car to the limit.
Episode 17
Apr 14, 2014 · 44 min
Tiff and Jason take the new vs old Golf challenge, there’s a drag race between the Mercedes E55 AMG and the Mercedes E250 CDI, and the Audi Quattro is pitted against the Audi A5.
Episode 18
Apr 8, 2013 · 44 min
German racing legend Sabine Schmitz joins Tiff for a head-to-head battle between the BMW M6 and the Porsche 911.