I’ve just finished uploading a bunch of changes to the site. The largest of which is that no torrents are hosted here anymore. Now when you click the download link on the episode pages, you’ll be redirected to the torrent’s page at Mininova. This makes it so that there will no longer be any legal issues (nothing illegal about linking to a webpage on another site) as well as keeping a more accurate download count.

Since torrents are no longer hosted here, I’ve put the download links to Top Gear back up. Feel free to download any you’re missing. I also had a chance to add all of the missing episodes and I’ve reviewed all but a couple of them. Expect the missing descriptions to be filled in in the next day or two.

Also new for the tech geeks is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional code. Let me know if you happen to find a page that fails validation and I’ll fix it.

Lastly, I’m putting the final touches on a new mailing list feature for those who don’t have feed readers to monitor the various site feeds with. Once it’s out, it’ll be a beta of sorts though for the first week or two as we see if it can handle sending out an e-mail to everyone on the list.

Hope you enjoy the new features! However, if you encouter anything that’s broken, please let me know in this forum thread.

Come join us in the IRC chat channel for the Fifth Gear season premiere party! We can all count down together the time until this new season of Fifth Gear starts. :)

However, please no asking about the ETA as it’ll be out when it’s out which is ASAP.

According to this forum thread describing the 2nd episode of the season (which airs on the 17th), the Fifth Gear season premiere will air this coming Monday, October 10th! Woo hoo! :D

We’ll of course be recording and releasing the episode as soon as we can after it airs. :)

Update [10/08]: You can see the episode description here.