Fifth Gear - Series 14, Episode 4
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »Apologies for the late update to this week's show. Jason Plato—AUSmotive's preferred Fifth Gear presenter—started the show comparing the JDM Honda Civic Mugen RR v the UK spec 2000 GT. The Japanese Civic was the quickest around their test track, ...
Fifth Gear - Series 14, Episode 3
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »A much better showing from the lads at Fifth Gear this week. The shootout saw Jason Plato pit der neue Passat R36 Estate against der neue Audi A4 3.0TDI Estate. TheR36 is Volkswagen's most powerful and quickest production car to ...
Fifth Gear - Series 14, Episode 2
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »So the next episode of Fifth Gear has been and gone and if you can't wait for it to air on Foxtel's Lifestyle Channel, here's a quick recap. Tiff brings back the shoot-out, starting with Mazda's revised RX-8 up against ...
Fifth Gear - Series 14, Episode 1
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | 1 Comment »Fifth Gear is back on UK screens and Episode 1 of Series 14 saw the debut of a new presenter, Tim Shaw. No, not the Demtel man, but someone possibly as, erm, loveable. We also saw Snooker legend and resident ...
Fifth Gear - Series 13, Episode 10
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »This was the last episode in Series 13 of Fifth Gear. The Anglesea shootout was between the early 1990s Ford Escort Cosworth and the early 2000s Ford Focus RS. Interestingly the older Cossie took the honours and was around 1.5 ...
Renault Clio Cup v MINI Cooper S JCW
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear, MINI, Renault | 5 Comments »Renault Australia, get your arses into gear! Why do we not get the Clio down under? It was released when Napolean was telling Josephine 'not tonight!' There's no excuses, surely! Rant aside, this is a clip featuring the Renault Clio Cup ...
Fifth Gear - Series 13, Episode 9
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | 1 Comment »Oops, a bit late with this precis (Episode 10 aired last night)! Fifth Gear's Series 13, Episode 9 kicked off, as usual, with a shootout at the Anglesea track, and we saw the current hot-hatch du jour, the Mk5 Golf ...
Fifth Gear - Series 13, Episode 8
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »Episode eight rolled off Fifth Gear's production line last night. Starting off at Anglesea, as usual, was another pointless comparison, as usual. This week saw a Porsche Cayenne GTS against a BMW X5 4.8 V8. And just in case you ...
Fifth Gear - Series 13, Episode 7
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »The seventh episode of Fifth Gear's thirteenth series aired in the UK recently. Crumbs, this latest installment really was scraping the bottom of the barrel. As usual, Vicki kicked off the episode by punting a couple of cars around Anglesea, ...
Fifth Gear - Series 13, Episode 6
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »Episode six of the current series of Fifth Gear featured the highly anticipated Nissan GT-R and Audi RS6 (see youtube clips below). In fact, Fifth Gear claimed theirs was the world's first TV clip to review the GT-R. Jonny and ...
Fifth Gear - Series 13, Episode 5
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »Episode five of the current series of Fifth Gear featured the much anticipated comparo between the BMW 135i and the Porsche Cayman (see two part youtube clips below). A short interview with Moto-X legend and rallying hopeful Travis Patrana showed ...
Fifth Gear - Series 13, Episode 4
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »The latest episode of Five's Fifth Gear saw Jason Plato take us behind the doors of the Segrave Club—the latest way to access the world's greatest supercars, including one of my favourites, the Porsche Carrera GT. Johnny takes the new ...
Fifth Gear - Series 13, Episode 3
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »The latest episode of Five's Fifth Gear aired in the UK yesterday. Johnny and Tom tackled the gruelling Exeter Challenge in a Volkswagen Beetle. A brief glimpse of the upcoming Ford Focus was given and a Fifth Gear special crash ...
Fifth Gear - Series 13, Episode 2
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »The latest episode of Five's Fifth Gear aired in the UK recently. Cars featured in Episode 2 include: Renault Clio 197 R27 v R180 RT Rage Buggy at Anglesea Toyota Landcruiser Mazda 2 BMW M3 v Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG A clip of the BMW v Benz ...
Fifth Gear - Series 13, Episode 1
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »While this blog will mostly focus on the Nurburgring, I thought it might be a good idea to include a few updates for other things motor related. If you've found this site then it's a pretty safe bet that you've ...
