The Stig
Some say...
Some say he never blinks and that he roams local woodland foraging for mouse meat. All we know is, he's called The Stig.
Things you may not know. Stig facts
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- He has a swivelling
head - When he blinks, you can hear a noise like a camera shutter
- No one knows what the LEDs on his neck mean
- These aren't gloves; his hands really look like this
- You need to squirt this bit with WD40 every six months (or every 5,000 miles, whichever is sooner)
- He can only digest meat. And rocks
- His buttocks are the same spec as the tiles on the bottom of the Space Shuttle
- He has a group of freckles in the shape of Sir Jackie Stewart
- Both his hearts have variable valve timing
- One of his knees seems to attract cats
- One of his legs is hydraulic
- When he walks his feet make a sort of wah-wah guitar noise
- This bit bends the wrong way
The Stigs Top 51 Cars
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Ferrari 430 Scuderia
Considered the greatest road-going sports car of all.
Rated: 8
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Bowler Nemesis
Because The Stig likes straight lines across deserts.
Rated: 3
Stig revealed!
Watch now. The clip everyone’s talking about – Stig takes off his helmet for the first time ever...
Watch nowBye bye, Stig
Watch now. Old Stig drives off the end of HMS Invincible in an XJS. Never to be seen again
Watch nowExige v Mustang
Watch now. Clarkson and a Lotus Exige race the Stig in a Ford Mustang. Who crossed the line first?
Watch nowLondon calling
Watch now. James, Richard, Jeremy and Stig race across London in car, bike, tube and boat
Watch nowThe Stig status:
Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The world of The Stig
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The tiny Argentinian village of Casco Blanco holds an annual Fiesta del Stigos, a three-day long festival during which all the villagers gorge on meat, refuse to speak and attempt to
over-steer their mules around a specially laid-out course.
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Every time someone uses the word ‘mincemeat’, the Stig
gets 25p.
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The Stig still claims that he invented Blu-Tack, even though everyone knows he is lying.
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The Stig is convinced that the clouds are following him.
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The Stig’s ears are not where you would expect them to be.
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If you knew what the Stig knows, you’d wake up
screaming.
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Filming of the seventh series of Top Gear was delayed because the Stig kept being attacked by a
goose.
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The Stig has seen every single episode of 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls at least eight times.
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When the Stig has finished lapping a car, the driver’s
seat smells of hot Bovril.
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In
Thailand, it is an offence to construct a building in the shape of the Stig.
Fortunately, this is a really stupid idea anyway, and no one has ever tried.
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In parts of northwest China, the Stig is known as ‘Pang woo cheung', which translates as 'Silent man, good at drive'.
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From May 1989 until January 1990, the Stig lived exclusively on cheese. As a result, he
went slightly yellow for a bit.
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The Stig thinks that Star Wars is a documentary.
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Every 27 April, the children of Arjemökk in northern Sweden celebrate Besätta Av Vitt Dag, or ‘Man Of White Day’, a quaint tradition in which the young folk of the town will
share Stig-related chocolates, sweets and pornographic magazines.
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In 1986, the Stig invented a new sort of tree. It never caught on.
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Only seven people have looked the Stig straight in the eyes. They are all dead now.
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In 2001, the Stig launched a short-lived range of men’s toiletries, including a
deodorant boasting 'The great smell of pork'. It was described by GQ magazine as ‘upsetting’.
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In 1998, the Stig was given his own chat show on Moroccan television. It lasted
for just 59 episodes and was described by one local critic as ‘extremely
confusing’.
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The Stig is one of the world’s leading authorities on steam irons.
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