While most people know about TopGear.com, the commercial website for Top Gear (the magazine, etc.), many people forget about the BBC.co.uk site. It’s the “official” site of the TV show and it has relaunched today with an all new design. Like TopGear.com, it features lots of videos (but unlike TopGear.com, these are sadly only available inside the UK) as well as guides for each episode. It also features a very handy TV schedule letting you know exactly when the next Top Gear rerun will air.

It also has a familiar link on the right side of it’s Extras page. ;)

BiA’s 550MB rip of Top Gear Australia 01×05 is now available. Expect a 700MB release later this week probably.

EDIT: Or maybe not. No sign of a 700MB release. Sorry.

As promised (but a little late), I’ve torrented up the much better quality 700MB rips of Top Gear Australia episodes three and four.

Hopefully your BitTorrent clients will be smart enough to not automatically download them again just because the URL to the torrent changed in the feed.

If you were wondering what will be on the season premiere of Top Gear, full details can now be found on our forums.

As mentioned yesterday, Top Gear season 10 is available on iTunes for $1.99 an episode.

If you were thinking about buying them but weren’t sure about the quality, etc., then I have good news — you can get the first episode of that season for free via this promotion link. Now of course there are also other methods available for getting the episodes for free, but that’s another story.

UPDATE: TopGear.com has a better quality version.

With under 2 weeks to go until Top Gear returns to the airwaves, promos have started airing on BBC. upyourego was awesome enough to rip one of them for us and here it is:

So much good looking stuff in that trailer! If you’re interested in learning more about what will be in the upcoming season, make sure to check out the spoilers section of our forums.

I’m not sure how long they’ve been available, but season 10 of Top Gear can be downloaded on iTunes for $1.99 an episode. While they are the cut down BBC America versions (about 10 minutes worth of content has been cut and they have different music), this is still a very welcome move by the BBC. As you probably know, Top Gear is not available on DVD and until this point, not officially available for download anywhere that I know of.

So if you’ve been looking for a legal way to download the show, you now have a solution.

Thanks to turbospe and kwings for the tip!

UPDATE: The site is now live. Make sure to check out the welcome video where Andy Wilman encourages people to keep illegally downloading the show (heh). Also take a look at some of the first of their American content. The site is a bit sparse at the moment as it literally just launched, but expect more content over the next few weeks.

In a FinalGear.com exclusive, we’re pleased to announce that the US portal of TopGear.com (site not live as of this post’s time) will be launching in under an hour at 11AM EST. That is of course if it goes to plan and doesn’t end up like the UK portal which launched a week late. ;)

I’ve seen previews of it and like it’s UK counterpart, it looks very, very good. The developers and content creators for the site have been working extremely hard on it for quite a while now and their efforts have paid off. Features include a blog, videos, and best of all — some US-specific content. It should go a long way towards spreading the Top Gear brand here in the States.

Mininova is down at the moment for maintenance, so I’ve hosted the torrent file on The Pirate Bay meanwhile. Mininova is back up and the torrent is now linked to from the episode’s page.

BiA also opted for an even smaller rip this week — 350MB. PiX put out a 700MB rip as well though which I’ll probably release later this week (along with last week’s 700MB rip).

Wow, I totally did not see this coming. TopGear.com has officially confirmed Top Gear Russia. I guess those rumors were true.

Everything’s a bit hush-hush at the moment, but we know that it’s going to run for 15 episodes initially, around the end of this year.

In Soviet Russia, car reviews you?