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Top Gear gets a new Stig – Tiff Needell

Tiff Needell becomes the Stig No, we haven’t got our stories in a twist. We know that former White Stig Ben Collins has been given some airtime as himself on Fifth Gear. Not that he’s fared brilliantly against Fifth Gear’s pair of seasoned and experienced drivers – Messrs Needell and Plato.

Driven: BMW i8

When BMW unveiled the Vision EfficientDynamics concept at the 2009 Frankfurt motor show, we wrote: "for our money, it's the first time a major carmaker has really attempted to communicate ‘green' technology in an aesthetic sense." Fast-forward five years and we've swapped the show halls of the IAA for a beauty spot on the north-west coast of Scotland. And, while the car's name has changed to i8, our sentiment towards this genre- and era-defining car remains. Admittedly the production car's design execution hasn't received the universal praise of its concept forebears, but, on a remote outpost of the British Isles, a Protonic Blue i8 couldn't look more exotic.

One lap of the web: Lego 'Rush' and spy shots of the Lexus GS F

The latest Lego parody video is online, based on the new Formula One movie "Rush." It's the newest in the series of Lego spoofs, which range from Darth Vader to "Cars 2" to the London Olympics. Check it out here. The next Lexus GS F was caught without camouflage by Best Car magazine in Japan.