During the off-seasons, the Top Gear hosts tour the world (minus the Americas sadly) putting on a live version of Top Gear called Top Gear Live. In South Africa, they completed this cool double loop-the-loop:

Top Gear has asked for help in naming two currently unnamed corners on their indoor test tracks for Top Gear Live UK. They have two polls going on the Top Gear Live UK Facebook page and in one of those polls, “Final Gear” is an option thanks to our forum member he-he.

So what are you waiting for? Go vote for us!

Top Gear has posted a video to YouTube of Jeremy, Richard, and James doing a promo for Top Gear Live. It’s pretty funny and in classic Top Gear style.

Top Gear Live is touring again this year. Here’s the locations for 2009/2010:

• London, Earls Court 5-8 Nov 2009
• Birmingham, NEC 12-15 Nov 2009
• Dublin, RDS Simmonscourt 3-6 Dec 2009
• Amsterdam, tbc 21-24 Jan 2010
• Cape Town, The Grand Arena at Grand West 28-31 Jan 2010
• Johannesburg, Coca Cola Dome 4-7 Feb 2010
• Sydney, Acer Arena 11-14 Feb 2010
• Auckland, ASB Showgrounds 18-21 2010
• Hong Kong, tbc

If one is anywhere near you, I’d recommend looking into attending. I’ve never been myself (nearest one is on the opposite side of the world from me), but from the photos and videos I’ve seen from previous years, it looks to be quite a spectacle.

The first ever Stig press conference:

[Source: TopGear.com]

Yes this news is from last week, but I haven’t been reading my e-mail too well lately so it slipped between the cracks. Whoops.

During a press conference for Top Gear Live in Australia, Jeremy was asked about the American version of Top Gear and if he thought it was going to be shown in Australia at all. He replied that the show had been “canned” and that us Americans “just don’t get it”. Now he may have just been referring to NBC passing on the show, but it may also be really dead. I’m not sure as Clarkson isn’t usually the most reliable when it comes to these kinds of things.

Anyway, you can see for yourself at 6:30 in:

[Source: carsguide.com.au, thanks to everyone who sent in tips]

If you had been hoping to go to one of Top Gear Live‘s Dublin shows only to find that the tickets had been sold out, don’t worry — more tickets go on sale on Tuesday morning. Head on over to TopGear.com for links and phone numbers to buy tickets.

TopGear.com has video from the Top Gear Live press conference. Not a must watch, but it is interesting.

For those of you in or around Sydney, you can now get in line to get tickets to Top Gear Live. The tickets aren’t actually available yet, this will just put you on the waiting list or whatever.

If the show in Dublin is any indication of what’s to come, tickets are going to be fairly hard to come by for the Top Gear Live World Tour. According to Independent.ie, the tickets for the Dublin show sold out in just 90 minutes.

If you’re planning to go to any other of the shows, I’d suggest being on the ball when it comes to buying tickets or you may just find yourself out of luck.