Do you live near Seattle? Or even in Portland (Oregon) or Vancouver, BC? Want to meet up with some fellow Top Gear fans and go on a long but awesome drive around the Cascade Loop? Then join me and some other folks on the morning of August 11th at Exotics At Redmond Town Center. We’ll be meeting up there to check out all of the beautiful cars and then taking off from there at 10 AM for an approximately 400 mile drive along the rivers and over the mountains of northern Washington.

If you’re interested, drop by this thread on our forums and post that you’re interested. You can also just show up unannounced on the 11th but we’re attempting to at least get a rough estimate of how many people will be going with us.

I hope to see you there!

EDIT: 400 miles too much for you? Consider just driving out to Leavenworth with us for lunch and then heading back the same way. That’s only a 200 mile drive but still along an awesome road!

Top Gear America host Rutledge Wood tweeted this earlier today:

So happy it’s out! #TopGear on @historychannel returns Aug 14th 9pm! 6 New shows,then 10 more after new year! You guys will love them!

— Rutledge Wood (@RutledgeWood) 16 juillet 2012

I’ve updated the counter at the top of the site.

It’ll be great to have something to hold us over until Top Gear UK returns.

[Thanks LazarusMP for the tip!]

Fifth Gear host Jonny Smith has announced that the show will be back on September 3rd on Discovery UK and that they’ve filmed two seasons back to back.

I’m now allowed to announce that the new series of Fifth Gear @fifthgeartv will go out on @discoveryuk on 3rd September. Feel free to RT

— Jonny Smith (@Carpervert) 11 juillet 2012

@anikadamali @fifthgeartv @discoveryuk We’ve been filming two series back-to-back, which we don’t normally do. The wait should be worth it!

— Jonny Smith (@Carpervert) 11 juillet 2012

I ran across this great video from back in April where James and Richard talk about Top Gear USA. Remember folks, the shows aren’t mutually exclusive.

[h/t MrMagicpants]