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Old 01-13-2009, 05:01 PM
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That's her power button
No, thats reserved for the LASER.
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Some say, his true identity is revealed on YouTube. And, that his actual life is quite mundane. All we know is, he's called The Stig!
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the stigs youtube profile

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DahFUck izzat?

Youre off your rocker, kersh. But in a good way... WHACKY! lol damn.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4286...he-answer.html


The Stig has been revealed
Old 01-19-2009, 11:16 AM
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I'm curious as to how this one will be killed off...
Old 01-19-2009, 02:36 PM
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Why ruin it.... Even if you do know who it is why do people feel the need to ruin it.
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Human nature.
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im curious as to what the new stig will look like.
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im curious as to what the new stig will look like.
Not black, not white... red or blue would be my guess. They're British you see.

I'd prefer to know who "fat stig" was in the American Car for under 1000 bucks challenge. The one the got out of the trailer...
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im betting on a blue stig.
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the only way you'll figure out who the stig is, if you become big enough celb to be asked to come on the show and get lessons from him to set a lap time.
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Originally Posted by kersh4w
im betting on a blue stig.
Back to the 50's, my man! British Racing Green Stig.
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A Top Gear spokesman said: "We never comment on speculation as to who or what The Stig is."
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I'll bet they keep the White Stig and continue to not comment on who he may or may not be.
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hope so. otherwise it'll be a never ending phenom. everyone will try to be the next person to "out" the stig.
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im kinda upset its been spoiled, i read it on autoblog

i mean ****, batman doesnt just leave his suit laying around the house!
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im kinda upset its been spoiled, i read it on autoblog

i mean ****, batman doesnt just leave his suit laying around the house!
Upset? He's probably made a tidy sum in those 3 years, got bitten by the film stunt bug and outed himself to break the contract with the BBC
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I am the stig..
Old 02-05-2009, 06:13 PM
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Black Stig Returns from the Dead

by Thami Masemola
February 6, 2009 1:25 AM
Filed Under: Entertainment, European, Lifestyle


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lkh0uWFg9c&eurl=http://www.worldcarfans.com/9090205.026/black-stig-returns-from-the-dead&feature=player_embedded


Here's a completely new angle on the Stig story. Promise. The black Stig is not dead, or if he died he's back from the dead. Back in 2003 black Stig was supposedly killed in a freak car accident where he drove off a military aircraft carrier and plunged his modified Jaguar into the deep blue sea, never to be seen or heard from again. That was until recently when a video popped up showing the black Stig coming out from the ocean and walking on a beach towards a group of guys as they were playing football.

If this turns out to be real and not just another hoax then it means former NASCAR racer Ben Collins was really the white Stig and he's been fired. According to reports anyone playing the role of the Stig must sign a confidentiality agreement stating that he will never reveal his true identity. Should his name become public either through his own doing or that of any BBC Topgear employee then he will be killed off. That's exactly what happened to former British racing driver Perry McCarthy after revealing he was the black Stig.

A few months ago the name of Ben Collins came out stronger and stronger as the best candidate for the identity of the current Stig with one newspaper claiming with certainty that the Stig was indeed Collins.

The video clip doesn't come alone. It is accompanied by a ‘press release' which in part reads: "...how he survived, nobody knows. Some believe he used the nitrous octane equipment from the Jag to breathe. Some believe he can communicate with dolphins and they cared for him. Has he returned because he can sense White Stig has had his identity exposed?"

Is the black Stig about to reclaim his original spot? Watch and see.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/dri...cle5670007.ece

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There is also a Slide Show where the White Stig is "unmasked"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/

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hmm interesting..
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The whole Ben Collins thing is so lame, I knew over a year ago that it was him. The show is so popular now that any silly newspaper reports on the rumours, that NOW they might have actually fired him :P
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Black Stig was William Hartnell.
White Stig is Patrick Troughton.
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I do not think that Collins was the stig, or at least not the main stig doing the power laps. There is a race between collins and a kid on a all terrain skate board thing in one of the earlier seasons. Collins has a different driving technique than the stig. Collins was very jerky in controlling the car and had a lot of movement on the wheel, like a bad rally driver. The stig is always very smooth in his motions and makes very few correcting motions and has much better car control than collins showed.

May said that the Stig is played by multiple people, so Collins may have played the Stig some of the times but is not always the Stig. This would actually help conceal the identity, if there were multiple drivers as the Stig, they would want to keep quiet since they would easily be replaced.
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Originally Posted by No More Oldsmobiles
Black Stig was William Hartnell.
White Stig is Patrick Troughton.
This is Top Gear not Dr. Who.


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