This week, a 2023 Lotus Emira has emerged from Jay Leno’s Garage. The 2023 Lotus Emira is a mid-engine car with rear-wheel drive and has a manual transmission! Bonus footage includes Ben Collins (The Stig from “Top Gear”) using a Lotus Evora to outrun and outgun a helicopter “piloted” by Jay.
The worlds of Jay Leno and the former “Top Gear” collide as race/stunt car driver Ben Collins – aka The Stig from “Top Gear” – appears in an episode of Jay Leno’s Garage…
Jay Leno – or should that be “Lane-o” – goes to the movies this week for his episode of “Jay Leno’s Garage” spotlighting famous and infamous cars from movies ranging from the recent “Baby Driver” with his special guest, Jamie Foxx and professional stunt driver Ben Collins [also known as The Stig] to the original […]
One of the few remaining good bits of the new BBC version of “Top Gear” is The Stig – and here he is driving the Ariel Nomad, albeit, regrettably in confusing and view-obliterating 360-degree angle…
The BBC has officially announced the remainder of the hosts for their new version of “Top Gear” and it seems they decided to name just about everybody as a host except for the janitor. Joining previously announced co-hosts Matt LeBlanc and Chris Evans will be an array of other people – some of whom you […]
The Stig from “Top Gear” fame – aka Ben Collins – talks about drive modes in the Ford Focus RS…
For those perhaps wondering what would become of The Stig now that Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and producer Andy Wilman of the most recent “Top Gear” have vacated the BBC premises for Amazon – wonder no more – as a property of the BBC, he will show up in a new BBC show […]
Now that “Top Gear” as we all knew and loved it is ancient history, the various humans involved have emerged doing other things – auction motorcycles, cooking shepherd’s pie, playing fancy flutes – and now The Stig [Ben Collins] makes his post-“Top Gear” appearance in a music video for CC Mason…
The upcoming third episode of Series 22 of “Top Gear” will feature a “challenge” between Top Gear’s resident tame racing driver, The Stig, and Red Bull Formula One driver, Daniel Ricciardo, who finished third in last year’s final driver standings. The challenge may or may not have something to do with ambulance driving. Episode Three, […]
The Stig is bored. A new season of “Top Gear” has yet to begin and driving motorcycles and chrome cars around a test track in South Africa don’t hold the same pizzazz as taking the SLR McLaren for a lap around the Top Gear test track. So what’s a bored Stig to do then? Why, […]
While you are patiently awaiting Series 22 of “Top Gear” to begin later this year, The Stig took to the track to take the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 for a little spin. Alas, the car will not be included in any of the upcoming Series 22 episodes as it arrived to the Top Gear test […]
Synopsis: A BMW M135i and Volkswagen Golf square off with Jeremy supervising proceedings, Richard takes the Porsche 918 out for a spin at the Abu Dhabi F1 track and Jeremy and James make a bicycle PSA film. Details: The fifth episode in Series 21 begins with Jeremy using the Top Gear test track as center […]
Ben Collins – aka The Stig from “Top Gear” – has joined the already illustrious roster who will be competing the newly introduced single-seater electric race car Formula E racing series. Along with Collins will be 23 other drivers, including ex-Formula One drivers Sebastien Bourdais, Narain Karthikeyan, Bruno Senna, Takuma Sato, Lucas di Grassi as […]