Fifth Gear has Stig

CraigXXL
CraigXXL Posts: 1,852
edited October 2010 in The Crudcatcher
Just watched Fifth Gear that now has Ben Collins, the last Stig off Top Gear. He should have lept his mouth shut and his helmet on because he's so boring to listen to. I hope his book sells well because his TV career won't be going far.
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  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,222
    CraigXXL wrote:
    Just watched Fifth Gear that now has Ben Collins, the last Stig off Top Gear. He should have lept his mouth shut and his helmet on because he's so boring to listen to. I hope his book sells well because his TV career won't be going far.

    couldn't have put it better myself!
  • stu8975
    stu8975 Posts: 1,334
    Can't see what all the fuss is, plenty people have known who he is before the 'unmasking' ,he's been on other car progs as himself thrashing cars whilst being the stig for top gear...eg Vroom Vroom on Sky1, although it only lasted 2 series...From 2006..
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  • CraigXXL
    CraigXXL Posts: 1,852
    Nothing against him but as a presenter utter rubbish as the mysterious driver excellent, people should stick to what they are good at.
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  • snotty badger
    snotty badger Posts: 1,593
    IMO Top Gear will always be a far better show than 5th Gear, employing "The Stig" is quite lame really.
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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    snotty badger wrote:
    IMO Top Gear will always be a far better show than 5th Gear, employing "The Stig" is quite lame really.

    +cucumber.
    5th gear always had the really crap feeling of being the retarded reject brother of Top Gear. I mean even the name is a cheap rip off of the show. And then the stig becomes "unmasked" and is now working for 5th gear. Their trying way to hard if you ask me.
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  • projectsome
    projectsome Posts: 4,010
    CraigXXL wrote:
    Just watched Fifth Gear that now has Ben Collins, the last Stig off Top Gear. He should have lept his mouth shut and his helmet on because he's so boring to listen to. I hope his book sells well because his TV career won't be going far.

    He hardly ever ventures down the hill, so we don't need to worry about him :)
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  • mobilekat
    mobilekat Posts: 245
    He is not the Stig, he is just a bloke who claims to have been the Stig.....

    We all know what The Stig looks like, and that The Stig doesn't have a face- he has a direct interface with cars!

    :wink:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Ah so Ben Collins WAS the stig?
    It always seemed to e be worded, that he revealed whothe stig was, but not that it was actually himself, if you read between the lines on the BBC's responses at the time.
  • spongtastic
    spongtastic Posts: 2,651
    5th gear's a bit carp now you can get an 8 speed auto.
    Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.

    Who are you calling inbred?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Who the frikk drives an auto, apart from mongs who can't or won't drive?
  • spongtastic
    spongtastic Posts: 2,651
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Who the frikk drives an auto, apart from mongs who can't or won't drive?

    People who have the money. Even I'd get a vw/Audi with a DSG box if I could afford it. E320 cdi with amg box and blower tweaks is friggin amazing.
    Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.

    Who are you calling inbred?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    eugh. :?
  • spongtastic
    spongtastic Posts: 2,651
    What's eugh about a car you can force into reverse and t turn? I can do the same in a Range Rover. Just can't afford one.
    Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    That must come in handy. I've often thought that what I needed was a car I could force into reverse.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    spongtastic wrote:
    What's eugh about a car you can force into reverse and t turn? I can do the same in a Range Rover. Just can't afford one.

    what does that mean? you can slam into reverse whilst still driving and the wheels will spin backwards to slow you done until your start going backwards?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    I have no idea what he means, but it certainly sounds useful, doesn't it?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    i did think the other day that if i could do one thing in my car, it would be to stop going forwards and then go back wards.

    which i can.
  • gazeddy
    gazeddy Posts: 305
    any ford with a lift up reverse gear can go into reverse while moving. but do it in a manual and youll be picking clutch outta your teeth
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Again, sounds very useful.
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    You know who had an automatic BMW....
    MTB/CX

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  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,593
    Auto is for people who don't enjoy driving.

    I don't mind a bit sequential paddle shitering on DSG. But fully auto is for people who are so uncordinated that they cant push there left foot down lol
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Wait, what, the clutch is on the LEFT?
    DOH! I've been doing it wrong for years :lol:

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