Racespresso racing helmet / espresso machine might've been Top Gear's The Stig, after all
By Ross Miller 
posted August 6th 2010 1:51AM
posted August 6th 2010 1:51AM
posted August 6th 2010 1:51AM
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does it come with cup holders?
I am the stig!
@TheCake I beat theStig
Chuck Norris will roundhouse kick all of you!
@TheCake No you're a lie.
@Kangal The Stig would beat Chuck Norris!
@deliteguy
I dont mean to sound like a douche, but...
The environmental impact of just launching a car into the middle of an f-ing ocean is why our oceans are going to become even more polluted in the decades to come.
We shouldn't just be launching crap in there
@Arcticpenguins One car is literally a drop in the ocean (If you will excuse the pun). Transport ships drop their cargo all the time, in storms the containers on top can be jettisoned.
In fact, a car is probably not that bad a thing to drop in the ocean, they had stripped out most of the plastic, so the rest would quickly rust away.
@deliteguy
that's made by a man called nobby... O.o
@Arcticpenguins QTE: I dont mean to sound like a douche, but... END QTE
Too late
@Marko The Stig IS Chuck Norris
@Marko The Stig IS Chuck Norris!
Perry McCarthy, the 'black stig', revealed his identity and was ceremoniously fired (in the above Youtube segment).
I guess you could say his brain is about as smart as a cup of coffee, so this helmet can be associated with him.
The white stig (a better driver, btw) seems to realize his job is simply to post the best time possible at any given event he's given. His opinions do not matter. His personality isn't relevant. Some say he's made of sponge and smells like internet cabbage. All that matters is that he drives fast.
Pretty cool shtick.
Not sure about the coffee maker. The best coffee always comes from a clean coffee maker. I wouldn't want to bother cleaning this one.
@Dustin F
No, the best coffee comes from a civet's butt and everyone knows that. Coffee maker be damned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
some say that there is a coffee machine... where his head normally would be.
and that on the 6th August 2010, he made Ross Miller type an engadget article about him.
all we know is, he's called The Stig.
@Wiggy Fuzz
Some say apart from darth vader hes the only other being to perfom a force choke and live, and if you hold him the wrong way he loses reception. All we Knows is...
@Wiggy Fuzz
some say he has the world largest collection of porno graphical material.. for all we know is it's not the stig but it is the stig's cofee drinking cousin...
Topgear FTW!
Rubens Barrichello make coffee faster than this hahaha.
Some say he knows two facts about ducks, and they're both wrong !
Its a new stig! thats why he is wearing white now. The old stig died and they replaced him with "a new and better stig"
@dagetz
Yeah maybe the white stig can make coffee aswell as tea and you can hold him the wrong way and still be able to get a signal
@windows4ever actually I hear there are some problems with the glass of his helmet fitting properly and some of the godly light from the stig is escaping :-/
TopGear is the absolute best show. EVER.
Although, See It Now did out McCartyism.....
Anyway, if you want to see everything that US cable tv cannot do...watch TG.
And the new Bugatti Veyron SS is siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick.
Engadget editors watching TG? wow!
Top Gear reference FTW!
The Stig calls "shotgun" when riding in his car, he's the most interesting man in the world!
So coffee driving cousin? What about sadwich vedor brother? I'd like to see that.... im hungry now
@ciloteille
NOM NOM NOM....ARGHH!
Some say he is illegal in 17 U.S. states.
It's been said that he's a highly advanced cyborg from the future who can think a fresh-brewed cup of espresso into existence...all we know is, he's called The Stig.