The real Stig

Perfect Balance · Jan 20, 2009

I just got this in a message from a friend, didn't see it posted anywhere yet, so here goes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4286448/Who-is-the-Stig-The-answer.html

wrcsti · Jan 20, 2009

Get ready for "grey" stig after this one is killed off then.

Perfect Balance · Jan 20, 2009

Maybe they just get tired of it, or their contract ends, so this is just a creative way of getting themselves "fired."

nk4e · Jan 20, 2009

I wonder if they will put lively colors into the STIG like Indigo.

Perfect Balance
Maybe they just get tired of it, or their contract ends, so this is just a creative way of getting themselves "fired."

Wouldn't you want to race a jet before you get fired?

bergauk · Jan 20, 2009

So the question is, how are they going to kill him off? Top Gear has gotten much more serious in the past couple seasons, I'm sure they couldn't make him jump off an aircraft carrier like they did with the last one.

ND4SPD · Jan 20, 2009

Boo-urns I liked white Stig. I want him to stay.

YSSMAN · Jan 20, 2009

Meh. I'm actually kinda disappointed, it ruins a lot of the fun for the show. I'm nearly of the mindset that they won't replace him.

peeweegary · Jan 20, 2009

That's just sad...I prefered white stig over black stig

...is it already time for a grey stig?

bobzombie · Jan 20, 2009

well now that we know who white stig is ... they just cant keep him cause now we have a face that goes with the white helmet

maybe they will make him do the car catapult
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=dMhFdugNaac

Turbo Lag · Jan 20, 2009

YSSMAN
Meh. I'm actually kinda disappointed, it ruins a lot of the fun for the show. I'm nearly of the mindset that they won't replace him.

Same actually. I would've wanted to know after the Stig actually left.

Philly · Jan 20, 2009

Gotta love the celebrity-based media. Sometimes these people are better left alone.

nk4e · Jan 20, 2009

bobzombie
maybe they will make him do the car catapult
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=dMhFdugNaac

ceiling_fan · Jan 20, 2009

I figured it was him when I read this a while ago:

The Health & Safety Executive report into Hammond's accident in September 2006 recorded that Collins had "worked closely with Top Gear as a high performance driver and consultant" and had prepared a briefing for the presenter.

And was I the only one who laughed reading this?

A Top Gear spokesman said: "We never comment on speculation as to who or what The Stig is."

Omnis · Jan 20, 2009

wrcsti
Get ready for "grey" stig after this one is killed off then.

I would prefer Silver Stig.

Rotary Junkie · Jan 20, 2009

Chrome Stig.

Legendary · Jan 20, 2009

Chrome stig would be epic stig.

niky · Jan 20, 2009

YSSMAN
Meh. I'm actually kinda disappointed, it ruins a lot of the fun for the show. I'm nearly of the mindset that they won't replace him.

What fun is actually left in Top Gear, you mean? Some of the recent stunts and skits in the past few seasons have seemed to be tomfoolery for tomfoolery's sake. I liked Top Gear the way it was back in the old days. Hoonery, tomfoolery, presenter-versus-presenter races that actually meant something, and actual car reviews. Not the formulaic dreck the show has become now.

Besides, the Stig joke is at least three seasons stale. It's about time they came up with a new gimmick.

nk4e · Jan 20, 2009

niky
What fun is actually left in Top Gear, you mean? Some of the recent stunts and skits in the past few seasons have seemed to be tomfoolery for tomfoolery's sake. I liked Top Gear the way it was back in the old days. Hoonery, tomfoolery, presenter-versus-presenter races that actually meant something, and actual car reviews. Not the formulaic dreck the show has become now.

Besides, the Stig joke is at least three seasons stale. It's about time they came up with a new gimmick.

The Stig's Sister?

Blake · Jan 20, 2009

nk4e
The Stig's Sister?

lol, that almost made me spurt coke through my nose! :lol:

nk4e · Jan 20, 2009

Blake
lol, that almost made me spurt coke through my nose!

That's going to hurt.

bergauk · Jan 20, 2009

nk4e
The Stig's Sister?

That is almost a great idea, you could get a race helmet and put a wig on the end of it and give it to a guy with a female racing suit. No one would ever figure it out and even if they did, who'd believe that person when they say that NewStig was a dude?

Famine · Jan 20, 2009

Wait... we already knew that it was mostly Ben Collins...

Like here in August 2005.

And last October and last October.

The Telegraph is a little late to the party, methinks.

doozle · Jan 20, 2009

I saw this in the paper the other day. It ruins the fun of the stig.

I'd heard it was Collins long ago though.

Speedster502 · Jan 20, 2009

Just a thought, shouldn't this be in Movies and TV rather than Automotive since it's not directly related to cars and more related to TV?

Anyway, I've voiced my opinion in the Topgear Thread.

Alex. · Jan 20, 2009

YSSMAN
Meh. I'm actually kinda disappointed, it ruins a lot of the fun for the show. I'm nearly of the mindset that they won't replace him.

Turbo Lag
Same actually. I would've wanted to know after the Stig actually left.

Well why click the link?

Rotary Junkie · Jan 20, 2009

Curiosity killed the cat.

PARAGON GT · Jan 20, 2009

So if the white Stig is out, who do you think will replace him if they continue with the "Stig" tradition?

Jim Prower · Jan 20, 2009

The magic has died. That is all I have to say.

Blake · Jan 20, 2009

PARAGON GT
who do you think will replace him

Me.

Oh, wait… Bugger. :ouch:

Holdenhsvgtsr · Jan 21, 2009

One YouTube clip shows The Stig, in full disguise, talking with a Bristol accent to a foreign TV crew and then cuts to Collins sounding very similar.

which strangely enough wasnt ben collins but tom chilton.

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