Thanks to the work of Quiky and PacketCollision, our server is actually easily surviving today. Major thanks to them.

Anyway, as to the real reason you’re here — today’s Top Gear can be found here.

After Top Gear aired on Sunday, an excellent documentary hosted by James May called James May on the Moon aired. It was about the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings.

If you’d like to download it and watch it (you should, it’s quite good), there is a torrent available right here.

Okay, you guys can stop raping our server now — today’s Top Gear episode is right here.

Speedtouch of our forums was awesome enough to capture a second kids themed Top Gear advertisement for season 13. Check it out:

Just a quick note — Jalopnik has been running some stories that are supposedly about this week’s Top Gear episode. They haven’t confirmed them as being true or not, but I’d avoid the site until Sunday just incase. No sense in ruining Sunday’s episode if they happen to be right.

Check out this funny teaser trailer for the upcoming season of Top Gear:

(it’s nice and high resolution, so make sure to hit the fullscreen button!)

Thanks to DEL732 and chaos386 of our forums for the video!

Andy Wilman, Top Gear’s executive producer, has a blog post up now which talks about the upcoming 7 episode season of Top Gear.

Starting yesterday, you can now purchase Top Gear episodes from seasons 10, 11, and 12 directly from your Xbox 360. Each episode costs 160 points (US$2) and is about 570MB. They of course feature replaced music (they have to due to licensing terms), however season 12 has no content cut (each episode is 60 minutes long). Sadly seasons 10 and 11 have about 10 minutes cut per episode (usually the news and the SIARPC).

For details, visit the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

As you may or may not have heard, there are currently some controversial laws being implemented in the UK:

State-funded organisations are being ordered to boost the proportion of female, black and gay staff to reflect the make-up of the UK population under plans unveiled by Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman.

This could potentially mean that Top Gear would have to introduce a female host as the law doesn’t have an exclusion for broadcasters. Top Gear’s executive producer Andy Wilman wrote his opinions about that particular potential change in a recent blog post:

I also do believe that this sort of claptrap is very patronising to women, because it assumes women can’t enjoy a show’s presenters on merit, but can only appreciate a programme if spoken to by one of their own sex.

His post in full is worth a read.

Top Gear will be getting an exhibit at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, England. Featured cars will include the limos, the boats (part 2), the police cars, the Reliant Robin space shuttle, some double-decker cars, and more!

Thanks to everyone who sent in tips and provided photos, especially Madnotmad7 and DesertDog.