'Stigs' are new boys at Repton School, a very expensive and well-respected public school in Derbyshire. As the two people who conceived Top Gear in its latest form - Andy Willman and Jeremy Clarkson - are both Repton Old Boys, they decided to call their anonymous driver The Stig.
Yeah, that's right, the always blokey, one-of-the-boys Clarkson is in fact a public schoolboy, with all that infers. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean...?
