Some say he doesn’t like to get his helmet wet, but he does like to talk to us through a series of dots and dashes. Yes, there was more Morse code from the Stig in tonight’s Top Gear. So what was he trying to tell us? Firstly, “I LIKE GARY NEWMAN”. Could it be that the Stig can’t spell? Is he talking of Gary Numan, the singer and...

After a couple of weeks off, the Stig was back with more Morse code in tonight’s (30th November) episode of Top Gear, the 5th in the current season. His first burst of dot-dashing said ‘TOO MANY GEARS’, clearly a dig at the Lexus IS-F’s ridiculous 8-speed gearbox. The second transmission works out as ‘I LIKE MR SULU’, a...

After the first lot of Stig Morse code on last week’s Top Gear, the translations are already out for the second episode in the new series. This time the Stig was driving the funky little Abarth 500. The first encoded message we heard translates to “I VOTED ROSS PEROT”, a reference to an American politician who fell out of the recent...

If you watched the return of Top Gear to BBC2 last week, you will have heard the morse code messages that the Stig was listening to as he tested the gorgeous Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4. While the Stig’s identity is only partially known we can at least understand his messages, as some Morse code boffins have translated the signals that were broadcast....