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Top Gear Season 14 Teaser Commercial originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sat, 7 November 2009 at 09:30 GMT.

I’ll be doing a rundown of stuff that’s coming in another blog, but first we must take care of some very important housekeeping, because for this series only, we’re moving to 9pm on November 15. We had no choice really: X Factor on at the same time with the Results Show, Cowell on storming form, the whole nation glued – we know when to bravely bugger off and wait until the storm passes.

I’ve updated the counter to reflect the new air time.

EDIT: Counter fixed for DST as well.

Top Gear Moving To 9PM For Season 14 originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 5 November 2009 at 22:00 GMT.

Chock full of threads and posts by others like YOU making the site a very handy resource. We have sections on Fifth Gear (RIP), Top Gear and a few other interesting shows. Not to mention all the shows that the hosts do when they aren’t making episodes of some our very favourite series. Heard a tune in one of the episodes you really like? We have a section on that too!

Even with so many (expected) sections, we have threads on food, entertainment and tons more, guaranteed to waste your semi-precious time from work or home or simply taking the train (wtf?) to work.

A lot of you already know about the forums, but you’d be surprised as to how many don’t, so those of you who don’t have no excuse not to sign up.

The FinalGear.com Forums originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 3 November 2009 at 22:53 GMT.

Q: RT @TopGearBabe: With so many fabulous adventures under his belt so far… are there any achievable dreams left unfulfilled for James?
A: Oh god, yes. I’d like to go to the Moon and I’d like to be able to make a risotto.

Q: RT @beckstar2: please ask James May what book he would take to a desert island
A: The Haynes Manual for the Honda CB 754

Q: RT @ChicklitBlog: If you could put a car into a time capsule for future generations to marvel at, which would it be and why?
A: Crikey, that’s a good question. I think the Ford Escort Mark 1, it’s what cars are meant to be.

Q: RT @maxtortheone: Please ask James May what impressions [removed due to spoilers, see forums for question] left him when he visited a couple of months ago!
A: It was much prettier than we expected, a very hospitable country. Lots of dogs.

Q: RT @LindenChase: What did James think of [removed] (where he’s just been filming with TopGear)? How bad was his vertigo?
A: The thing I remember most about [removed] is the dust, I don’t like dust. It gets in the air vents.
A: My vertigo is pretty bad everywhere, even up a 5 storey building, so in parts of [removed] it was very bad.

Q: RT @Intheskieswith: Does James May have a favourite novel or author?
A: When I was 18 I read Free Fall by William Golding and thought ‘this is about me, it’s going to change my life’ but that’s probably rubbish
A: I also like Cecil Lewis’s Sagittarius Rising. If you want something erudite and easy to read, Car Fever is an excellent book.

James May Does Q&A On Twitter originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 3 November 2009 at 09:23 GMT.

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Jeremy Clarkson’s Latest DVD On Sale In The UK originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 3 November 2009 at 06:00 GMT.

Top Gear Australia Officially Moving To Channel Nine originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 23 October 2009 at 18:46 GMT.

Rumor is that Shane Warne is being talked to to host the show as well as Jeremy Clarkson, although I have no idea how that would work.

We’ll let you know as the news comes in and thanks to everyone who sent in tips.

Top Gear Australia Changing Channels And Hosts? originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 20 October 2009 at 21:00 GMT.

Fifth Gear was canceled today — it will not be back according to The Daily Mail. While the show obviously wasn’t as entertaining to watch as Top Gear, it’s still a shame in my opinion.

However, Jonny Smith has been tweeting:

To answer all the tweets about Fifth Gear ending – I don’t know who the Daily Mail talked to, but nothing is official. TV is a fickle world.

FG is always compared to the big-budget epic movie monster that is TG. It can’t and won’t ever be TG. FG was always more, well, grass roots.

To be completely honest, it could be time for a fresh car TV show recipe. Right now I’m enjoying Industrial Junkie & motor journalism tho!

Fifth Gear Cancelled? originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 18 October 2009 at 19:09 GMT.

• 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.

Top Gear Live 2009/2010 originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 9 October 2009 at 06:40 GMT.

You can find details about the event on the LeMons website and details about our LeMons history our forums. The guys also have a Twitter account where they’ll be posting updates.

If you’d like to help our LeMons team out, donations are greatly appreciated as they guys going are sinking their own money into this.

Pictures of our team’s 1999 Buick LeSabre:

FinalGear Meet At LeMons Ohio 2009 originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Wed, 30 September 2009 at 06:05 GMT.

Top Gear Back November 15th? originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 22 September 2009 at 23:43 GMT.

That means all the races, supercars sliding from left to right of your telly screens and the boys’ comedic adventure, all in crystal clarity.

As Jeremy said a few weeks’ back, filming is well underway on Series 14 and if all goes to plan it’ll be on your screens by mid-November.

We’ll be doing our best to provide 700MB (SD), 720p, and 1080p rips for each episode. The HD rips will likely take a bit longer to release though, so don’t expect them as quickly as we release the current resolution rips.

Top Gear Is Finally Going High Definition! originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 22 September 2009 at 22:43 GMT.

As always, if you don’t wish to download the entire season, see our FAQ for details on how to selectively download certain files from within a torrent.

Top Gear Season 13 Torrent originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 17 September 2009 at 07:34 GMT.

Our third batch of shirts are now available for pre-order in our new store (orders will be shipped starting October 12th). We also have a couple leftovers from the first and second batches, so get them before supplies run out.

Here are the four new shirts:

New FinalGear T-Shirts Now Available In Our Store! originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Wed, 9 September 2009 at 02:48 GMT.

• Richard and James hitting their head on the camera mount from their Royal Mail race
• Jeremy and his Spanish co-driver attempting to communicate during the classic car rally
• James attempting to hide his frustration with his co-driver and her inability to read a map during the classic car rally
• James’ full song about the VW Scirocco for his TV commercial

UPDATE: I forgot that I have a Greasemonkey script in my browser that removes the region blocking from the TopGear.com videos. You can find YouTube versions of the videos in this forum post.

Outtakes From Top Gear Season 13 originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Mon, 7 September 2009 at 00:14 GMT.

Here’s something for the proper Top Gear fan — our executive producer Andy Wilman at the Edinburgh Festival talking about the telly show.

It was a Five Live interview with newsreader (and former Star in a Reasonably Priced Car) Kate Silverton, covering searching topics such as secrets to the success of the show and why men like sheds.

At 13 minutes, it’s a decently long interview and is worth listening to. You can download the interview or stream it here:

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Andy Wilman Interviewed On The Radio originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 1 September 2009 at 22:31 GMT.

I’ve mirrored the podcast on our server for download (so you all don’t devastate their servers), or you can listen to it here:

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Thanks to JoeX and Charlie for sending in the tips!

Adam Carolla And Eric Stromer Tell Top Gear US Adventure Story originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 21 August 2009 at 00:22 GMT.

It was picked up by various websites, including Jalopnik. Well, turns out it was all a hoax as a sort of going away present from the TopGear.com American editorial staff before they got let go. Pretty damn good (but not perfect) hoax if you ask me.

You can read more about how they did it at the NY Times and Jalopnik.

Well done guys.

Porsche Shooting Brake Hoax By TopGear.com America originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 14 August 2009 at 11:26 GMT.

Top Gear’s American Site Moves To BBCAmerica.com originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Mon, 10 August 2009 at 21:27 GMT.

Not to be outdone, Top Gear Australia host Steve Pizzati rolled his race car two and a half times in a race on Sunday. Luckily he was fine as well though.

Drive more carefully, guys. lol

Hammond And TG.Au Host Steve Pizzati Both Wreck Their Cars originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Mon, 10 August 2009 at 06:14 GMT.

As like before, it’ll be a contest where anyone and everyone can submit their ideas for a design. Winners will get a free shirt or two, some swag, and major props and gratitude. :P

If you’re interested in entering, you can find the full contest details on our forums.

New FinalGear.com T-Shirt Design Contest originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 7 August 2009 at 23:40 GMT.

However things really started to pick up in 1988 when Clarkson and his hair joined the show:

Sadly not many rips of old Top Gear exist, although we do have some on our forums. Don’t go in expecting the current format of Top Gear though as you’ll be disappointed.

A Trip Down Memory Lane: Old Top Gear originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 6 August 2009 at 19:51 GMT.

Props to Dean Evans for the link.

Clarkson’s Cheap Car Challenge Mitsubishi Starion On eBay originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Mon, 3 August 2009 at 21:09 GMT.

Remember that episode of I’m Alan Partridge in which Norfolk’s favourite light broadcaster makes a ‘humourous intro to a song’ which accidentally suggests that the Queen is dead, something he later realises has ‘been taken a bit too literally by one or two listeners… and a newspaper’.

Something similar seems to have happened after the poignant Aston Martin film that closed the current series of Top Gear.

The Twitterers (or, if you’re David Cameron, the Twatterers) have gone nuts with speculation that Jeremy was not forecasting the end of V12 wonders like the Aston; he was prophesising the demise of Top Gear itself.

So, just to clear up once and for all, Top Gear is NOT DEAD. Unless it went in the night and has yet to be discovered by the maid…

Ha! Not really. See you in November.

Now please stop making threads on our forums asking if Top Gear is dead. It’s really annoying.

Top Gear Is NOT DEAD, Stop Over-Analyzing originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Mon, 3 August 2009 at 17:47 GMT.

Top Gear 13×07 Out Now, Last Of The Season Sadly originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 2 August 2009 at 20:19 GMT.