For any of you who are in the Ohio area, LeMons Ohio is this weekend and we’ll be having a car there. Our team is hoping to do even better than our previous outings and they’d love it if you’d drop by and say hi.

You can find details about the event on the LeMons website and details about our LeMons history our forums. The guys also have a Twitter account where they’ll be posting updates.

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On the BBC’s Internet Blog’s post about Top Gear airing in HD this fall, the author mentioned the start date as being November 15th. Is it true? It’s hard to be sure as usually we don’t know this far out, but it sounds right (they’ve been saying mid-November all along). So assuming she’s correct, that’s just 53 days to go!

Unlike last time, it is now official that the next season of Top Gear will be in HD!

That means all the races, supercars sliding from left to right of your telly screens and the boys’ comedic adventure, all in crystal clarity.

As Jeremy said a few weeks’ back, filming is well underway on Series 14 and if all goes to plan it’ll be on your screens by mid-November.

We’ll be doing our best to provide 700MB (SD), 720p, and 1080p rips for each episode. The HD rips will likely take a bit longer to release though, so don’t expect them as quickly as we release the current resolution rips.

I realized I never made a single torrent for Top Gear season 13, so I’ve done so now. If you’ve yet to watch season 13 (what in the world were you thinking?!), then you can easily download it right now.

As always, if you don’t wish to download the entire season, see our FAQ for details on how to selectively download certain files from within a torrent.

[The shirts have sold out! Thanks to everyone for ordering and making it a big success!]

Our third batch of shirts are now available for pre-order in our new store (orders will be shipped starting October 12th). We also have a couple leftovers from the first and second batches, so get them before supplies run out.

Here are the four new shirts:

If you don’t subscribe to the Top Gear newsletter or missed the latest issue, here’s some outtakes from the latest season of Top Gear.

• Richard and James hitting their head on the camera mount from their Royal Mail race
• Jeremy and his Spanish co-driver attempting to communicate during the classic car rally
• James attempting to hide his frustration with his co-driver and her inability to read a map during the classic car rally
• James’ full song about the VW Scirocco for his TV commercial

UPDATE: I forgot that I have a Greasemonkey script in my browser that removes the region blocking from the TopGear.com videos. You can find YouTube versions of the videos in this forum post.

From the Top Gear blog:

Here’s something for the proper Top Gear fan — our executive producer Andy Wilman at the Edinburgh Festival talking about the telly show.

It was a Five Live interview with newsreader (and former Star in a Reasonably Priced Car) Kate Silverton, covering searching topics such as secrets to the success of the show and why men like sheds.

At 13 minutes, it’s a decently long interview and is worth listening to. You can download the interview or stream it here: