UPDATE: Seems TopGear.com has taken down the post. Dunno why.

Richard Hammond’s Dodge Challenger from yesterday’s episode is currently up for sale by Top Gear. If you’re in the US and want to own a piece of Top Gear history, then make sure to check out that link.

But what, you might be wondering, has happened to the Dodge Challenger that Hammond bought for the American road trip? Well, after its adventures on the salt flats it was taken to a garage for a reassuringly expensive health check and very thorough clean up, after which it was advertised for sale.

Unfortunately, it turns out that during a credit crunch people in America have suddenly realised that a bright orange two door muscle car isn’t top of their priority list and, whilst Richard paid a premium for it just a few months ago, Challenger values are now becoming distinctly mushy. Net result is no one has made an offer. Yet.

So, if you’re reading this in the US and you fancy a well specced, low mileage Challenger with TV stardom and (sort of) competition pedigree, you know where to look.

Top Gear is in America this week. Watch it yourself right here.

EDIT: This week’s torrent is very popular. We’re doing the best we can with the speeds (we have a few gigabits worth of seedboxes going I’d estimate), but please make sure to do your part and help upload what you have. In addition, there’s also links to Rapidshare and the likes on our forums (free registration required for that section). Thanks for your patience.

The news uncut has returned for season 12 and is now available on TopGear.com. Discussion includes wind powered cars and an Infiniti that’s coming to the UK.

TopGear.com has a short video (an outtake of sorts) of Jeremy talking about how he fell out of his seat while attempting to powerslide a semi-truck for the latest Top Gear episode. It’s nothing terribly exciting, but still funny and worth a watch.

Okay, so it may not be as good as the UK version, but it’s still worth a watch. You can grab the 6th episode right here.

Yes, Top Gear is back and here’s the first episode. Woo hoo!

And if you can’t use the recommended download method (BitTorrent) because you’re at school or something, HTTP download links (RapidShare, etc.) are available on our forums (free forum registration required for that part of the forums).

For the third year in a row, Top Gear won the Most Popular Factual Programme award at the National Television Awards. The Stig was nice enough to show up to accept the award:

Congrats, boys!

While most people know about TopGear.com, the commercial website for Top Gear (the magazine, etc.), many people forget about the BBC.co.uk site. It’s the “official” site of the TV show and it has relaunched today with an all new design. Like TopGear.com, it features lots of videos (but unlike TopGear.com, these are sadly only available inside the UK) as well as guides for each episode. It also features a very handy TV schedule letting you know exactly when the next Top Gear rerun will air.

It also has a familiar link on the right side of it’s Extras page. ;)

BiA’s 550MB rip of Top Gear Australia 01×05 is now available. Expect a 700MB release later this week probably.

EDIT: Or maybe not. No sign of a 700MB release. Sorry.

As promised (but a little late), I’ve torrented up the much better quality 700MB rips of Top Gear Australia episodes three and four.

Hopefully your BitTorrent clients will be smart enough to not automatically download them again just because the URL to the torrent changed in the feed.