Sorry for the late post, but it’s hard staying in the loop while not living in the UK.

Top Gear won a National Television Award Wednesday night for the second year in a row. Congratulations to the whole Top Gear crew and presenters! Well done!

Here’s a video (with really loud audio, be careful) of them winning:

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Jeremy also won a “Special Recognition Award”, a lifetime achievement award kind of thing. Here’s some footage of that:

TopGear.com has some unseen footage of Jeremy driving in the Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera on the Col de Torini cut from the first episode of this season. While the steaming video quality isn’t all that great, the soundtrack of the Gallardo’s exhaust is to die for.

For those of us who just can’t get enough of Top Gear and it’s presenters, Jeremy, Richard, and James all have released new books for the fall.

Richard’s autobiography, entitled “On the Edge“, was co-written with his wife Mindy. It details his 288 MPH crash last year and his recovery from the accident. There’s also a really funny video preview of the book by Richard at Amazon.co.uk.

Or you can just watch it via YouTube:

Jeremy’s book, “Don’t Stop Me Now“, contains his latest collection of columns as well as a ton of other random stuff.

Lastly, James May’s 20th Century accompanies his recent television series which covered various inventions and discoveries made over the past century.

[Via TopGear.com]

Here’s a sneak peak of Clarkson’s new DVD. It will be out November 5th and UK visitors can pre-order it now off Amazon.co.uk.

That’s right, those lucky bastards down in Australia are going to be able to see the MPH show themselves, a car show / live Top Gear thingy hosted by Clarkson, Richard, and James reports GoAuto.com.au. It will be sometime within the next 18 months according to the article.

Remember that petition on the official British Prime Minister website from a few months back? Well it’s now up past 15000 signatures. We’re not sure if these people are unhappy with the current administration or if they just like Clarkson, but regardless, it’s still pretty funny.

[Via: Autoblog]

No surprise or anything with all the America bashing he does, but it’s still news.

An American version of Top Gear has hit the skids — because Jeremy Clarkson has refused to live in the US.

BBC chiefs were set to sign a multi-million dollar contract with an American channel to make a Stateside show this year.

“[...] because it takes a long time to film the show it meant the crew and presenters would have had to live out there for several months.

“Jeremy didn’t want to do that because his life and family are in Britain, so it’s been shelved.”

More at The Sun Online.

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You might want to check out this month’s Clarkson article in Top Gear magazine. Very interesting read on the future direction of Top Gear, when it possibly will be back, and other things such as Top Gear forums like this one.

For those who can’t wait another 8.25 hours, here’s the James May Top Gear trailer in high quality, once again thanks to danbarnesdavies.

We also have a high quality version of the Clarkson trailer that was previously posted in poor YouTube quality.

You can also download both trailers if you wish.