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The Falls of Foyers (Scottish Gaelic: Eas na Smùide, meaning the smoking falls) are two waterfalls on the River Foyers, which feeds Loch Ness, in Highland, Scotland. They are located on the lower portion of the River Foyers, and consist of the upper falls, with a drop of 46 feet (14 m) and the lower falls, which drop 98 feet (30 m). [1]
The series introduced much of the new elements that the programme had brought in as part of its relaunch of original 1977 programme of the same name, including the anonymous driver known as "The Stig" (portrayed by Perry McCarthy), the Top Gear test track, and the celebrity timed laps that would begin with the Suzuki Liana.
The Stig is a character from the British motoring television show Top Gear.Created by former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman, the character is a play on the anonymity of racing drivers' full-face helmets, with the running joke that nobody knows who or what is inside the Stig's racing suit.
Foyers (Scottish Gaelic: Foithir, meaning "shelving slope") [1] is a village in the Highland council area of Scotland, [2] lying on the east shore of Loch Ness. The village is situated on the B852, part of the Military Road built by General George Wade , 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Fort Augustus .
For its first series, the show was presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and Jason Dawe, with support from an anonymous race driver, The Stig. The format of the first series was more similar to the original show than later series and had interviews with guests outside of the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car segment.
The show has featured a number of epic races, where one of the presenters — Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, and occasionally The Stig — drives a car in a race against the others in another form of transport. These races typically involve Clarkson driving the car while Hammond and May take the same journey by combinations of ...
The most Westerly point in Britain is in fact Ardnamurchan Point in Scotland. Meanwhile, Hammond takes a look at his childhood heroes the Porsche 959 and the Ferrari F40 , May gets to drive the Space Exploration Vehicle from NASA , and John Prescott arrives in a chorus of boos as he sees how he fared in the reasonably priced car.
On 20 June 2009, the day before Series 13 was to premiere, Jeremy Clarkson announced in his newspaper column that the Stig would be showing his face on the first episode of the new series, [2] claiming that the Stig was "fed up with newspapers speculating that he's a photocopier salesman from Bolton, or lives in a pebble-dashed house in Bristol ...