Previously the only decent quality rips of the current edition of Top Gear season 1 were from a channel called BBC Prime. They weren’t the best quality and were shorter than a normal episode due to the removal of some content.
However the season just finished re-airing yesterday on the SBS network in Australia and we are glad to announce that much better quality rips are now available.
So go download them and see how the show restarted in it’s new format. You’ll surely enjoy them and it should help with the wait until the next new season of Top Gear starts sometime this summer.
Richard was having stomach pains earlier this week and it was discovered that he had appendicitis and needed surgery. However, rather than skip a prior commitment to meet some fans who had won a lunch with him, he pushed back the surgery by two hours.
The surgery went smoothly thankfully, but surgeons discovered Richard also had kidney stones and a hernia. He’ll be having the stones removed sometime next week.
He’s now at home recovering meanwhile with his wife and kids. He should be fully recovered soon.
The following video is from SPEED’s video podcast and features a little bit of Adam Carolla behind the wheel of the new Pontiac G8. It’s rather short and features horrible music, but it’s a decent look at what Adam might be like on Gear and his skills at being funny on the fly.
After the huge success of the first Melbourne meet, our Australian forum members have decided to have another one. It will on May 4th and will take place in Gippsland. Anyone and everyone are welcome to come and details can be found on our forums.
After a 3 week break, Clarkson’s column is back. This latest one is about his trip to America and El Toro (presumably since he’s a consultant for “Gear”) and the Callaway Corvette C6 he drove while he was here.
Top Gear is screened all over the world, from remote Himalayan villages to the bullet-ridden boulevards of Lebanon. It is a genuine, bona fide export success. But in the US it is watched only by half a handful of expats who diligently follow BBC America, and a few torrentists on the interweb.
As you may know, Top Gear is currently only shot in SD (standard definition) except for the Polar Special which was a one-off. The UK is only now starting to really make the switch to HD and existing shows are always the last to switch.
Richard revealed in his Mirror.co.uk column though that the “next” season of Top Gear will be shot in HD. Now I’m not sure if by “next” he means the one they are filming now I assume (season 11) or the one that will air this fall (season 12), but either way, this is totally awesome.
We’ll be doing our best to get HD rips out alongside the 700MB SD rips.
The American Top Gear already has two presenters — Adam Carolla and Tanner Foust. However, they still don’t have (or at least have announced) the third presenter.
So, for fun and maybe more (we already know Andy Wilman, the executive producer of Top Gear, reads our forums so I wouldn’t be surprised if some people at NBC are too), let’s speculate and suggest who should fill that third slot on the show.
If you’re interested, we have a thread going on our forums. So please, post your thoughts!
Plans to turn Dunsfold Park and it’s runways into a housing development have been proposed before, but squashed by locals concerned about increased traffic. Or so we thought.
Seems the plans aren’t dead as they, or similar ones, have recently been submitted to borough council. The plans include 2,600 houses and other amenities.
If the houses were to be built, this would obviously mean that Top Gear would have to move as they need their hangar and runways.
Luckily, the general consensus on our forums is that like in previous years, any plans for building there will fail because the residents won’t want the extra traffic.
