The Stig


VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson drifts a Jaguar XKR Convertible... in flippers

We missed the first part of this skit, as the video you're about to watch isn't from Top Gear, but rather from JC's newest DVD Dual Duel. Still, it does feature the Stig. And some ridiculous-yet-somehow-jealousy-inducing car-antics. Apparently, Jezza bragged that the Jag is such an easy to handle drifter all-star, that he could smash an apple... while wearing flippers. But he's not the only one wearing ridiculous shoes while hammering a big powerful car around a track. The Stig attempts to smash apples in a pair of wellingtons. The ... Read more →

Top Gear: A little history about everybody's favorite TV show Jonny Lieberman

What if the Stig was known as the Gimp? It's doubtful Top Gear's mysterious racing driver – or the show itself – would have proved as enormously popular. Would you walk around in a ...

VIDEO: Top Gear Season 14 returns this Sunday Jonny Lieberman

Guess what boys and girls? Everyone's favorite car-related show is coming back for a fourteenth season! That's fantastic news for gearheads everywhere, especially considering that at the end of ...

Top Gear reports Stig arrested in both Dublin and Mojave Desert Noah Joseph

Some say he has a problem with authority. Others say he's actually capable of being in two places at the same time, and getting arrested in both. All we know is that Top Gear is making less sense ...

VIDEO: Ultima claims Top Gear track record without show's authorization Jeremy Korzeniewski

Automotive records can be funny things. While everyone seems to be interested in knowing what vehicle is the quickest, fastest, most expensive or rarest, there always seems to be plenty of dissent ...

Forget Waldo, BBC Books coming out with Where's Stig? for kids 3 months ago on Autoblog

Wasted time. All the wasted time we spent as children looking for that ridiculous, bespectacled, striped goon when we could have been seeking out the world's most enigmatic racing driver. As with so many other things, however, future generations need suffer no more thanks to illustrator Rod Hunt and ...

Stig and the boys immortalized in bricks as Top Gear makes it to Legoland 3 months ago on Autoblog

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Top_Gear_Immortalized_in_Legoland_w_pic'; Another Saturday, another LEGO car story. This time, the little Danish bricks have been used to immortalize the presenters from our favorite automotive television show, Top Gear. In honor of the show naming the ...

Stig's identity voted as Biggest Mystery of the Century 3 months ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/people/The_Stig_s_Identity_Voted_Biggest_Mystery_of_the_Century'; The assassination of John F. Kennedy? The existence of the Bermuda Triangle? Bah! What Brits really want to know, more than anything else, is the true identity of the Stig. This according to a ...

VIDEO: Jay Leno confirms Top Gear appearance 4 months ago on Autoblog

Those previously unconfirmed rumors of Jay Leno making an appearance on Top Gear? Consider them now confirmed, courtesy of The Man himself. According to Jay Leno's Garage, the popular American late-night comedian, talk show host and all around cool guy did in fact visit Jeremy Clarkson, The ...

VIDEO: The Superest of Supercar Shootouts: Bugatti Veyron vs. McLaren F1 on Top Gear 5 months ago on Autoblog

Episode 2 of Top Gear's 13th season aired last night in the UK, and the main event was a one-mile drag race between the McLaren F1 and the Bugatti Veyron. Notice that we didn't say a McLaren F1 and a Bugatti Veyron. These two supercars are so super (and rare) that any single example tends to ...

VIDEO: Stig scam gets you around for free 5 months ago on Autoblog

Here's a fantastic challenge that the Top Gear team didn't think up: if you walked around London dressed as the Stig, how many strangers would let you drive their cars? Aussie comedy show The Chaser's War on Everything went to London to find out, in an attempt to find a cheaper way to travel. ...

Top Gear: The Stig, revealed 5 months ago on Autoblog

Like the Sith revealing themselves to the Jedi, the Stig has revealed himself to Top Gear's live studio audience. Maybe. Follow the jump to watch. [Source: Top Gear via YouTube] ...

REPORT: The Stig is to be unmasked unhelmeted on tonight's Top Gear! 5 months ago on Autoblog

Jeremy Clarkson has written that some time after the new season of Top Gear begins tonight at 8 p.m. on British televisions, "Stig barges into the studio and in an atmosphere that you could cut with a knife removes his helmet." Ostensibly, that means we'll finally learn the identity of the ...

Some Say He Might Be A Little Shocked: UK man gets $30,000 bill for watching Top Gear 8 months ago on Autoblog

Will Pierce has gotten it backwards. The goal is to get paid for watching Top Gear; instead, Pierce earned himself a hefty bill for catching up on the Best. Car. Show. Ever. Pierce and his son were on a ski trip in France, where there happens to be a paucity of English-language television. To ...

Top Gear returns in June with Series 13 8 months ago on Autoblog

If life without new episodes of Top Gear is too depressing to bear, you only have a few months to wait for Series 13. Clarkson, Hammond, May and the Stig will be back for more automotive mayhem in June. The terrific trio will undoubtedly have a whole new arsenal of automotive hi-jinx waiting for us ...

Comic Relief to auction ridealong with Stig 9 months ago on Autoblog

We still don't know who the White Stig is, and he could be replaced by the Black Stig, the Purple Stig, or the Rainbow Stig pretty soon. But before he goes, you can win a ride with him around the Top Gear test track. Red Nose Day is a fundraising event put on by the British charity Comic Relief, ...

British papers report the Stig is greater than any one man 10 months ago on Autoblog

There have been a whole slew of reports lately on the true identity of Top Gear's "tamed racing driver". Some say he's Lewis Hamilton, while others say he's the late great Graham Hill. Some say he's venerable stunt driver and former racing impresario Ben Collins, while others say he's the ...

Top Gear officially reveals Stig's identity, and he's even more impressive than we thought 10 months ago on Autoblog

Fair warning: This is our third Stig post in about a week, so if you're not a fan of the Top Gear and its Tame Racing Driver, feel free to mosey on down the page. Speculation about the Stig's identity has always been a fun way to pass the time with fellow car buffs. It's one of those secrets that ...

Top Gear's Stig Revealed! 10 months ago on Autoblog

Fans of Top Gear might want to prepare themselves for another Stig death soon. When "Black Stig" Perry McCarthy revealed himself, Clarkson, Hammond and May offed him. Now, according to the UK's Telegraph, the "White Stig" has apparently ended the mystery, revealing himself as 33 year-old Ben ...

Top Gear's the Stig identified... as a sensible married man? 10 months ago on Autoblog

The Stig's identity is one of those great mysteries that would lose all of its inherent intrigue if it were to be revealed. Regardless, here we are with another story that hints at the secret identity of the man behind the mask. Thankfully, though, the source of the leak was reportedly within the ...

The Stig writes riveting review of Nissan GT-R 1 year ago on Autoblog

We've all heard our share of rumors about the true identity of the one called The Stig. But after our childhood notions of the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus were shattered, we prefer to keep the legend of the anonymous test driver from Top Gear alive. So we're not about to claim that ...

Win the lottery? Have Stig take you for a spin 1 year ago on Autoblog

Lottery winners can often have subhuman tendencies, so it's only natural that you'd want to hang out with equally awful subset of humanity, racing drivers. The Stig is a perfect representation of those with abnormally high levels of octane in their blood, and his/its services around Silverstone were ...

The man behind the mask: Top Gear's Stig stares back 1 year ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Camera_flash_exposes_steely_gaze_of_the_Stig'; One of the greatest wonders of the modern world is how Top Gear has managed to keep the identity of its tame racing driver, the Stig, secret all this time. The biggest clue yet to his identity surfaced yesterday ...

The Stig: Some say he's Lewis Hamilton 1 year ago on Autoblog

The producers of Top Gear have kept the identity of "The Stig" a closely-guarded secret. With such a wide audience and fan base, that's led to endless speculation over the true identity of the show's phantom test driver, and one British celebrity is now claiming he knows who it is. Guests on the ...

NBC working on Top Gear remake for the States 1 year ago on Autoblog

Bionic Woman. Knight Rider. And now....Top Gear? NBC, America's remake network, has ordered a pilot of an Americanized Top Gear. Expect to see all the usual Top Gear conventions, including three presenters; a masked Stig-like driver; a private test track; taping in a hangar before a live audience; ...

Top Gear totally smitten with Nissan GT-R 1 year ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/motorsport/New_Nissan_GT_R_A_Top_Gear_Favorite_2'; The platitudes keep pouring in for the 2009 Nissan GT-R. Bill Thomas from Top Gear produced our favorite write up by far right before Christmas in which he pits the GT-R against its arch nemesis, the Porsche 911 ...

Unseating Koenigsegg: Ascari A10 sets new Top Gear lap record 1 year ago on Autoblog

Sweet Lord, how we do love progress! Cars just keep on getting faster and faster. Unfortunately drivers aren't getting any better – as evidenced by the seemingly endless stream of supercars crashing into unforgiving immovable objects – but leave it to Top Gear's anonymous pilot ...

BMW 330i races around the Top Gear track... without a driver 1 year ago on Autoblog

We don't know much about the car or the episode, but Jeremy Clarkson rode around the Top Gear track in a specially prepared BMW 330i, and he didn't touch the controls once. The windshield ribbon reads "BMW Track Trainer," so it could be used to train drivers the right lines without all that pesky ...

2007 AB Gift Guide: Race the Stig Game 2 years ago on Autoblog

Some say "Top Gear"'s tamed racing driver has always owned Park Place, Boardwalk and Free Parking. Others say he's never been beaten at tic-tac-toe. All we know is that he's called The Stig, and he's got his own board game called Top Gear Race The Stig Game. This electronic game looks ...

VIDEO: Lewis Hamilton vs The Stig - Who Won? 2 years ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/videos/sports/VIDEO:_Lewis_Hamilton_vs_The_Stig_-_Who_Won_'; We won't spoil it for you, so you can see the results and watch the Top Gear segment with Lewis Hamilton after the jump. (You can also bittorrent the episode already on Final Gear.) Suffice it say, ...

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Lewis Hamilton vs the Stig 2 years ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/motorsport/Sunday_Sunday_Sunday_Lewis_Hamilton_vs_the_Stig'; Some say that he shaves with a chainsaw, and that he can climb the Eiffel Tower using just his lips. All we know is, he's called The Stig, and on this Sunday's episode of Top Gear he'll be racing F1 ...

Top Gear could be U.S. bound with British hosts 2 years ago on Autoblog

Is The Stig headed to the States? It appears that the wildly popular automotive TV show, Top Gear, could be heading to these shores (again). The BBC and The Sun newspaper have reported that there are again plans to do a Top Gear U.S. version, but this time with current hosts Jeremy Clarkson, ...

Dutch TV interview proves The Stig is indeed human 2 years ago on Autoblog

Some Dutch TV show visited the Top Gear set recently and interviewed the cast. Well, everybody but Jeremy. But the list of interviewees included THE STIG! Even though the others fail to acknowledge that the Stig is even human, this Sheryl Crow lookalike manages to coax a few words from the test ...

Top Gear's COTY Awards... one we actually care about 2 years ago on Autoblog

Any time there's any mention of how or what a car show on TV should be, we find ourselves invariably praising Top Gear. Cutting insight mixed with hilarious wit, drop-dead gorgeous imagery and a whole lot of fun and passion make it the perfect car show. When Top Gear does a Car Of The Year, we sit ...

The Stig goes farming with a Lamborghini 3 years ago on Autoblog

We know that Ferruccio Lamborghini started out as a tractor maker before building his line of exotic sports cars, but taking an LP640 out to clear a field is just plain silly. Just weeks after Richard Hammond was released from the hospital following his rocket car crash, it is being reported that ...

The Stig plays indoors with Toyota's F1 car 3 years ago on Autoblog

Seeing how fast you can drive and stop a 900-horsepower Formula 1 car in an enclosed space sounds like a pretty crazy thing to do, even if said enclosed site is the massive ExCeL in London's Docklands, site of next week's British Motor Show. In the event of a mishap, a wall impact there would ...

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