TopGear.com has officially confirmed that the next season of Top Gear will start on November 2nd, as we earlier deduced. A little under 23 days to go!

Anyway, the upshot is that Top Gear was going to be back on 26 October but then there turned out to be some sport on or something and as a result the new series will now start on Sunday 2 November.

Motor Trend has an interview with the American Top Gear host Eric Stromer. If you’re having doubts about him, it probably won’t address all of them but it does give you some insight into the guy and is worth a read.

Thanks to topgearfan1 for the tip.

The new TopGear.com has finally launched. It features nearly 300 videos (which I’ll be setting up links to shortly so you can just stream the segments you want), new blogs, a ton of car reviews, and so much more. It also seems they want to steal users back from us (oh no!) as they’ve added guides for each episode describing what was in each episode. ;)

But seriously, it’s a great site and worth a visit if you’re bored at work (or even if you’re not) and wanting to watch some Top Gear.

Apparently this second episode was better than the first.

Since last week’s episode was so good I thought I’d continue torrenting the show for you all.

Top Gear Australia isn’t out yet, but we’ll have a torrent for you when it is.

If you care about Scene versus non-Scene for your Fifth Gear collection, the Scene has released their rip of last Monday’s Fifth Gear.

Also a reminder that there will be no Fifth Gear this Monday as the current season is over. New episodes will begin airing sometime in 2009.

As you may remember, Top Gear took on Germany’s D-Motor TV show earlier this year.

About a week ago, the other “half” of the show aired — the D-Motor perspective. A couple of our forum members have been awesome enough to write English subtitles for the show. You can watch the show in either YouTube format or download it to your PC.

Thanks again to Suedschleife, swek, and wooflepoof!

Based on the Applause Store’s website as well as tickets for filming that members of our forums have received, it’s looking like the first taping for the new season will occur on October 29th. This means that the episode would air the following Sunday, November 2nd rather than the “third week of October” like James had previously stated (that’s probably just when they head back to the studio).

So a bit longer of a wait, but based on various filming sightings that our forum members have made, it should be a very excellent season and worth the wait.

Took a bit longer than expected due to some site issues I had to fix, but Fifth Gear 14×08 is now available. This is a rip courtesy of Moto as there’s no rip from the Scene yet again. Oh well.

Speeds may be less than optimal due to bandwidth having to be spread between both this and Top Gear Australia. Please be patient.

The Scene actually put out a rip of Top Gear Australia while I was sleeping, so that easily solves my problem of which rip to use. You can find a link to the torrent right here. Huge thanks though to all those Aussies that provided us with their own rips though. It was much appreciated!

No sign of Fifth Gear 14×08 yet so we may be using Moto’s rip again. I’m going to push that back for an hour or two though in order to give Top Gear Australia a bit of time to be better seeded.