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To the viewers of Top Gear, he is part man, part machine, with veins that course with petrol. But the true substance of “the Stig”, the BBC programme’s so-called tame racing driver, was revealed yesterday to be somewhat more prosaic.
The identity of the character, who test-drives cars around the Top Gear track, was divulged at the weekend as Ben Collins, a Bristol-based former American speedway driver and stuntman who doubled for Daniel Craig in the latest James Bond film...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/article5548705.ece

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

I hope that Santa Claus is still real.

Bad form the Times.

Oh crap.... that ruined my day now. :(

Fuck's sake Times get a real story, that's just evil.
I proprose a boycott on the times immediatly, their insubordination i have had enough of. Now is the time for change, damn you times damn you to hell!
On a somewhat lighter note, i'm eating some nice mash/beans and sausages tasty.

NOOOOOOOOOO!

Now Top Gear will have to kill this Stig and replace him with a new one. Though one of my flatmates has a theory there is more than one Stig.

This information has been public for a while, it's been on Wikipedia for, I'd say, about a year already.

Why the papers are suddenly interested, who knows?

Well let's be grateful for a news story that doesn't feature Obama or a plane in the Hudson

The Daily Telegraph was first with the news. So don't demolish the Times.

*smiles, nods and pretends to know what's going on*

*smiles, nods and pretends to know what's going on*

Dude! They unmasked the Stig! You know... THE STIG.. that guy from Top Gear... the one that you know.. drives cars or something...

I have no idea whats going on either.

The Daily Telegraph was first with the news. So don't demolish the Times.

*lowers pitchfork*
you say what now? after i got the boys ready for a riot you tell me it was someone else who did the deed?

*feels put out*
oh well, still it's shameful to do that to people.

Dude! They unmasked the Stig! You know... THE STIG.. that guy from Top Gear... the one that you know.. drives cars or something...

I have no idea whats going on either.

A guy on a very popular BBC show, who's identity is hidden for humerous intent to make the Stig seem amazing, has now been revealed.
Okay i'll compare this to the day someone told you santa doesn't exist and has the proof.
that's how evil it is.

A guy on a very popular BBC show, who's identity is hidden for humerous intent to make the Stig seem amazing, has now been revealed.
Okay i'll compare this to the day someone told you santa doesn't exist and has the proof.
that's how evil it is.

I hope that day never comes. :)

Dude! They unmasked the Stig! You know... THE STIG.. that guy from Top Gear... the one that you know.. drives cars or something...

I have no idea whats going on either.


The Stig is a figurant in the enormous popular car show 'Top Gear'. He always showed up disguised.

One of the most asked questions in search engines was : "Who's the Stig?"

The Stig isn't human. Ben Collins is human.

I'm sorry, Times and Telegraph, but I don't believe you. Given that you both think David Cameron is capable of running Britain when in reality he's barely capable of running a bath, I think my disbelief is well founded.

Okay i'll compare this to the day someone told you santa doesn't exist and has the proof.
that's how evil it is.

I never believed them anyway... me and Santa are tight, we like brothers. He just still hasn't given me that Red Rider BB gun I keep asking for so we haven't been talking as much... like... at all...

I wonder what color the next Stig is going to be.


The identity of the White Stig was quite ambiguous until the last two series, now they won't be able to ignore this.

Or maybe they will.

I wonder what color the next Stig is going to be.


The identity of the White Stig was quite ambiguous until the last two series, now they won't be able to ignore this.

Or maybe they will.

What about pink?

I never believed them anyway... me and Santa are tight, we like brothers. He just still hasn't given me that Red Rider BB gun I keep asking for so we haven't been talking as much... like... at all...
ah but maybe he knows you didn't really want the gun, just the power the gun gives, hence you now have a DJ job thing. so he was listening to you.
I hope that day never comes. :)

me too

ah but maybe he knows you didn't really want the gun, just the power the gun gives, hence you now have a DJ job thing.
Definitely. He must be into psychology.

Particularly Freud: remember how many women wanted something with a long bonnet for Xmas, but only got a long boner.

*smiles, nods and pretends to know what's going on*

Dude! They unmasked the Stig! You know... THE STIG.. that guy from Top Gear... the one that you know.. drives cars or something...

I have no idea whats going on either.

Imagine a Dread Pirate Roberts who can drive cars really fast.

Definitely. He must be into psychology.

Particularly Freud: remember how many women wanted something with a long bonnet for Xmas, but only got a long boner.

very droll.:p

Oh. My. God.

Imagine a Dread Pirate Roberts who can drive cars really fast.

Ok, he's cool.

Boooooo! Let's burn the Time's offices to the ground and then never speak of this again!

What about pink?

YES!! yay!! That be cute (I am a stupid pink loving girl btw) and they should have that mental German woman (Splean or something innit?) testing the cars! yay!

I think they should infuriate Clarkson by having a green Stig - driving slowly in a hybrid car would send him demented

Spoilsports and partypoopers have ruined a good thing :(

Didn't they, the last time the identity of the stig got revealed, just set up a stunt that went horribly wrong and caused the 'death' of the stig. I wonder what elaborate stunt they will do this time.

Didn't they, the last time the identity of the stig got revealed, just set up a stunt that went horribly wrong and caused the 'death' of the stig. I wonder what elaborate stunt they will do this time.

Death of Stig (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu2ztjiqH2g)

Didn't they, the last time the identity of the stig got revealed, just set up a stunt that went horribly wrong and caused the 'death' of the stig. I wonder what elaborate stunt they will do this time.

My bet is that it will involve a caravan being destroyed in a novel and politically incorrect way

My bet is that it will involve a caravan being destroyed in a novel and politically incorrect way

I can hardly wait

<trembles with anticipation>

A guy on a very popular BBC show, who's identity is hidden for humerous intent to make the Stig seem amazing, has now been revealed.
Okay i'll compare this to the day someone told you santa doesn't exist and has the proof.
that's how evil it is.

I told myself that and demonstrated it to myself.

[Ignores rest of thread] I'm American and Top Gear is awesome. And any red-blooded American male will say that cars are worth caring about.

I'm the Stig.

It is not true.

they were able to keep this person a secret for how long?

I told myself that and demonstrated it to myself.
not possible.
I'm the Stig.
No i'm the stig!

pfft everyone knows James May is actually the stig (think about it)

I am a stupid pink loving girl btw

*notes down to put some ladies mags in the waiting room*

pfft everyone knows James May is actually the stig (think about it)

Well I did see that episode when they challenged the German team.

Why the papers are suddenly interested, who knows?

Well apart from something going on in the US that filled at least 10 pages of every newspaper. Nothing else in the owrld happened and so they had to fill up the papers with stuff like this.

Also why don't Americans know or even care about Top Gear?

Well apart from something going on in the US that filled at least 10 pages of every newspaper. Nothing else in the owrld happened and so they had to fill up the papers with stuff like this.

Also why don't Americans know or even care about Top Gear?

Maybe their episode in the US is ti blame?

Spoilsports thats the fun part guessing who stig is. Shall we presume Ben collins might be fired and a new secret one hired.

Also why don't Americans know or even care about Top Gear?
Top Gear has already answered that.

Because most Americans treat cars like either white goods or like a penis replacement. In the former case, it's whatever Honda or Ford is the cheapest now and spacious enough, in the latter, it's whatever is the biggest or makes the least miles per gallon.

Top Gear rather treats cars much more passionately.


Maybe their episode in the US is ti blame?
I'd think people should rather take interest in TG from that episode. Despite the popular misconception, most Americans do have a sense of humor. Unless they come from far South, like Mexifornia, Mexas or Mexico, that is.

Some say his voice can only be heard by cats, and that he can believe it's not butter. But nobody says he's Ben Collins *ignores*

Maybe their episode in the US is ti blame?

I don't nkow I have never seen that one.

I don't nkow I have never seen that one.

You've missed some amazing hillarity. The only episode better than that one is the polar one.

You've missed some amazing hillarity. The only episode better than that one is the polar one.

And I haven't seen that one either.

And I haven't seen that one either.

Oh... that's sad. Surely there must be clips of those on youtube?

Oh... that's sad. Surely there must be clips of those on youtube?

Yes maybe, but currently I am watching Qi. I may have a look for them later.