Another distraction in the Top Gear office yesterday was Google Street View. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s a tool that lets you zoom right in to certain city streets and have a nose around. The best bit? We found the TG office. And Stig is standing in our window.
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is that realy the sig
the stig is realy on Google Street View
The Stig is really on Google Street View!
If that realy is the stig that is hilarious
has anyone else seen how tall he is look at the women to the left hes a giant
The Stig IS Google!
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen today!
If it’s really your office, I would reckon you guys have a fake Stig standing around there all the time. A wax figure or something…
In Soviet Russia, Stig googles YOU.
funny but thatss the cardboard cutout cuz ive seen it and look at how flat he looksss xxxxx
Some say that’s where – and how – he sleeps…
Anonymous, the woman is actually just further away.
It’s no cardboard cut-out – if you move further down the road in street view you can look back and see he’s three-dimensional…
She’s further away silly.
that man will do anything for publicity
slightly off topic i saw a noble the other day on kensington high st with the reg THE 571G.
I hate to be a wet blanket, but I think that’s a mannequin. I remember seeing a Stig suited mannequin in a TG commercial with a director or a producer. The mannequin was in a glass case in back of shot behind the speaker.
Still, pretty freakin’ cool that streetview caught this.
stuh256, thats just ironic and funny
and google probably contacted the BBC for permission to take the photo’s since it is all private property, and they thought it would be good publicity to put the stig there, then post it here on the website to advertise
But any how, it is actually quite funny
some say that he is attracted to windows…
Some say that when you type in to Google street view ‘Hammersmith, London W12 OTT UK’ you get a picture of him as a giant.
And that he IS Google.
Some say it is him, some say it isn’t, all I know is that he’s called the Stig!
maybe next time he will wave.
well done stig
I think that might be fake cause why would the stig be in hammersmith
Hahahahahahahhahahahahaha hahhahaahhaha
“Some say that he’s in our window on google maps. No literally he is!” Funniest thing I’ve seen today!
I bet thats a model of the stig
Yes, it’s me
all 27 of you accidentally your whole spelling!
that. is. brilliant.
Although with that busy road system around, surely James May gets lost a lot?
ive seen him there ha
Stiggy!!!!!
lets toss something at the window later on, and see what happens…
some say hes 2 dimesional and that he lives in google maps!.
that’s awesome. stig, you better be awake because they are watching after you
so this is what you do all day !!!! I always had a feeling I should be working for Top Gear, now it´s more than a feeling, it´s a fact !!!!!Please TOM, get me in… I make the best sandwiches ever and will work for food !!:D
Some say I died laughing seeing this stuff.
Top gear the keens of all
what do you have to type in to get the picture up
Thats’ bloody brilliant !!! hahahahahhahahaha I love it
If you check it on Sunday evenings he’s not there.
I like to think hes keeping a watchful eye over the city traffic
I’d like to complain that Stig’s human rights are being repressed – they haven’t even blurred his face, it’s so completely clear who he is, or should that be isn’t ?
Some say he drove the car that took the pictures and that he did the UK in 4 hours…
Thatz a 2 dimesional cutout..but yeah..u people don’t need a TG board on your office..that works just fine..
So, from what I can see, The Stig is now beginning to take over the 2 dimensional world AND beginning to grasp the power of the interwebnet.
oh my god, everytime i go past somewhere london its like i cany find tg office
some say that he’s never heard of google…
Some say,it was the stig who complained about google being able to see into your room!!…
LOL! That’s quality…
And its not a 2d cut-out either, if you move up and down the road, you can see The Stig from different angles and he’s clearly 3D. Too funny.
Some say he owns Google!
i think its a model. if u move to a different position he doesnt move at all, but everything else does
Some say… Google is his family name.
thats a poster.
omg this is hilarious
wow! that is so cool! but is it real??????????
Some say he’s visible from space…
lol
somesay he has no understanding of facebook and that he was so eger to noe he made a book full of faces… all we noe is he’s standing somewhere in the top gear office w8ting for season 13
that is so cool!!!
haha say hi to the stig
haha,, thats so cool but is it real ????????????????????????? ?
Wow “Me…”
You really need to calm down…How can you not love google street view? Its a massive achievment.
its a crdboard cut out ive seen it it is always there.
I want to see christine blakely in the office above!
some say he is the founder of google…
Stiggyyy!!
some say that he has a tatoo of the google logo on his left bumcheek…. and that every time someone makes a ’some say’ joke if they are not part of the topgear team, within 20 seconds they will be vaporised by him lifting up his visor… all we know is he’s called the st- *SCREAM* – *ZAP ZAP*
go stiggy !
can i have a sind ortograf of richard hamond pleas and the top gear dog
Some say that kim greatbatch can’t spell (look above this comment), and that once, the Stig himself stumbled upon a footballer’s wrecked 599 tunnel… all we know is he’s called GOOGLE MAN>
LOL HE ACTUALLY IS
haha thats great, so ironic
some say he don’t go to the toilet
hahaha this is really very funny! i laughed for a long time!
haha thats so cool
stuh256, i saw that noble around kensington as well.
Some say that there is a especial law that allows him to be trigamist
For all we know Stig owns Google. Actually he probably does…
亲爱的STIGGY
some say if you say three times his name in front of your hose he will appear in front of your house on google maps
WOW, Stig!
I love this google street thing, and that Stig is real. Just to clear things up
When is the new series of Top Gear starting again?
xxx
SOME SAY… THAT IS MADE IN CHINA…. AND HIS ( OR HER ) SKIN IS YELLOW… ALL WE KNOW ONLY IT’S CALLED “THE STIG”….
HI STIG
SOME SAY IT WAS THERE TO CLEAN THE WINDOWS!!!!!!
AND IT HAS FINISHED THE SOAP…
ALL WE KNOW IT’S CALLED “THE BEADLE”
iam the stig
im not actually i was joking
whens top gear back on
this is a good adverb for top gear
some say it s a man who sleep under the bad and he souk frome his ass
some say its a helf man helf fish
I want to see the game of need for speed (most manted)inthe show
that s cooooooooooooooool!!!!!!! !
When is the new series of Top Gear starting again?
Your right! How strange. I’v looked at the new softwair before but I never saw that! Did TG know when the photos were being taken?
Thats sooo cool! If that really is the Stig then Jeremy will have a new some say….. on the nect series in June!
Some say that he is google.
Others say that he is a giant(see women next to him)
All we know is hes not the stig, but he is the stigs A-list cousin!
To Steeg,
The new series of Top Gear starts in June.
BtRC
some say, he is adain chales replacment for the one show, and that he has no time for washed up celebrateies
it’s the ‘big version’ Stig…some say he’s visible from space…
WOW thats so cool. And i think its real!!
Goggle doesn’t have the Stig… The stig has Google
if only that building had tours of the top gear room with a gift shop and cafe i will have a stig shake and a pack of vw Polos also i have heard from a friend of a friend that top gear starts 21st of june
hi its realy me in that photo
Some say that all of the Google-network is linked trough him…
Some say he went to burger king and asked for a big mac, and he got it….
I like your program but, I like one day you make a sires in Malta thank you.
Some Say He Craves Treacle Topped Cats From Devon, and Some Say He Is The Sole Cause Of Crop Circles!!
Hi scouser good weekend still open
i have heard rumous that it is a cardboard cut out
Some say that he is plugged in charging up ready for the next series and that the TG office gets a better itnerweb connection if he stands there all we know is he is there ive seen him and my i phone had a flid while passing him and he’s called the stig wireless router
Some say that he is just a cardboard cutout.
And some say that he has more than 2TB of memory. All we know is…
…he is called The Stig
He used to be there all the time watching over the A40 heading into london. Every morning I’d wave at him. Sadly, he’s no longer watching over us.
Some say that all you losers need to leave of the some say jokes. Cos your all getin a bit carried away now. Oh and some say the stig controls google earth using his knees.
Some say he’s real, some say he’s fake… All I know is… some are lying
Though the ‘Who could the STIG?’/'STIG puts us on the map’ article/pictures were reasonably funny, here’s what the IMDB has to say on the matter in Trivia section of ‘Top Gear’ (1978-????) (TV series)…
“For the first two seasons, The Stig was Perry McCarthy, a former Formula One driver as well as a test driver for three F1 teams. A new Stig took over from McCarthy after the original Stig’s “demise” at the beginning of Season 3.
On the 18 March 2006 the former Stig, Perry McCarthy, revealed that currently there is no one single test driver, but multiple test drivers who masquerade as the Stig; he said this when he appeared at a Palmer Sport activity day in Bedfordshire, UK. Rumours have it that one of the new Stigs is Damon Hill and occasionally Colin McRae. And in January 2006, the Daily Express claimed that the identity of
The Stig is former Formula 1 driver Julian Bailey.”
B!
PS: X-posted on the AU site. I’m Australian.
i reckon it’s cool that the stigs on google
P:S who surports pompey in here if so send me a message
stig you beat me on to google maps
It’s true, i was going to a gig in london and actually saw that stig standing there in that building driving on that road! i was amazed i had actually seen the stig!
I love you stig xxxxxxxx
when is top gear coming back ?
Some say he can peer deep into your soul…as evidenced by the Stig on Google Maps! Now if Google could get a picture of him driving around…
So say, that if he is on fire, he calls the postman… And when he took his first driving test, the G-Force was so great, his brain shifted to the left… All we know is, he might be Madonna!
Some say that ‘it’ breaths pure Oxygen. And that ‘it’ fell out the sky in a helmet of fire. All we know is, ‘its’ Carol Vorderman!
The stig is really a good publicity man because he was just a the right place at the right time.
he will probably get an interview for a modeling job.
Or even for an acting career because he keeps the secret hidden and doesn’t talk to anyone but the Top Gear Team.
ITS THE STIG!!
The ‘woman’ you see to his left is actually a little smurf…
Whoever it was from Top Gear that found Stig in his secret meeting will magically disappear within the next few days..
You watch…..
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Yes,I found him in the Google Earth. ITS REALLY HIM!!!
The Stig is brilliant aswell as missing topgear i really can’t wait until it comes back with a new series
Topgear is the best Richard Hammond and his possible whitened teeth Jeremy Clarkson and his jeans and the James May with his hair and then of course The Stig with his immaculately clean white suit he must use vanish
IS HE THE ONE IN THE BLACK F1 CAR IN THE ADDVERT FOR F1
LOL
That’s cool, now to put something else on there, HAMMOND!
if we can find him!
he’s probably there as well!
it is not the stig
this is the stig D:
GO STIGY GO
It just goes to show you can’t be too careful!
if only that building had tours of the top gear room with a gift shop and cafe i will have a stig shake and a pack of vw Polos also i have heard from a friend of a friend that top gear starts 21st of june
Its lucky he didnt have his helmet off otherwise his identity would have been ruined.
yeh ur right new Top Gear starts 21 june yippee!And i luv stigy in the window.
I like that man!!! Is a Man??? really?
That small smurf women u c near the stig is Richard Hammond. some say Richard Hammond lives between the stigs butt cheeks, thats why he has to have his teeth whitened every day.
That is so cool
OMG seen it all haha so funny x
It isn’t the Stig because the studio where we record the show on Wednesdays is nowhere near London, it is infact in Dunsfold not in Hammersmith and so the Stig wouldn’t be there and secondly Stig is on vacation in USA with Jezza
Some say The Stig prefers Yahoo
Some say he took this picture himself
IT IS A CARDBOARD CUT OUT
Some say he can do the 24 Hour Le Mans race in 6 hours…
That’s brilliant =)
Heck yeah Stig!!!
That is a board,look it’s here too http://maps.google.co.uk/ maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en &geocode=&q=Hammersmith,+ London+W12+0TT,+UK&sll=53 .800651,-4.064941&sspn=12 .322317,40.253906&ie=UTF8 &ll=51.514959,-0.228567&s pn=0.001582,0.004914&t=h& z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.5149 26,-0.228765&panoid=cRXQy RB9ywmaZVKuBSddWw&cbp=12, 146.0064180401871,,2,-12. 084480108548325
The Stig in Google????!!!!!! why hasn’t the world imploded???!!!!!
No matter where you look the stig would be there!
Is this:
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http://maps.google.co.uk/ maps?sll=53.800651,-4.064 941&sspn=20.278713,39.506 836&layer=c&cbll=57.22610 9,-4.572287&panoid=ApPA1r wguy7D-Kl8q6i0bw&cbp=12,1 27.6,,0,13.34&ie=UTF8&hq= &hnear=&ll=57.226207,-4.5 72115&spn=0,359.990355&z= 17 if you think thts good then u shud see the more recent one in scotland