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#514 A Rock Star & His Cars. As a tribute to Mike Peters who died this week, we revisit a moment in 2018 when two best friends chatted about cars in the beautiful countryside of Eryri, north Wales. Plus: news about 20 Years On Speed.

#506 Quiz Special. In this bonus episode Gareth Alex and Zog invite you to join in our holiday season quiz “Fact Or Fake?”. Astounding car facts, or are they lies, can you tell the difference?

Korean manufacturer Hyundai celebrated the production of its 100 millionthvehicle recently, the Hyundai IONIQ 5 rolled off the production line at thecompany's Ulsan Plant, this facility recognised as the birthplace of the Koreancar industry. Here in 1975 Hyundai produced its first independently developedmodel the Pony. For the record Hyundai Motor Company was founded in 1967,building its first car, a Ford Cortina under license, before moving on to its owncar design a year later. I well remember the brand's arrival in Australia under AlanBond's distribution in 1986 where it became one of our fastest growing brandswith the cheap and cheerful small Excel hatchback. The company snapped up Kiain the mid-nineties – last year becoming the world's third biggest producerdelivering 7.1 million vehicles behind Volkswagen with 8.8 million and Toyotawith 10.8 million. I'm David BerthonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On February 12, 1971 19-year-old Jesse McBane headed out to surprise his fiance, 20-year-old Patricia Mann. He was taking her to a Valentine's Dance in Durham, North Carolina. The two lovebirds had to be back at Patricia's dormitory by 1:00 AM curfew. Only …she never returned. Durham police officers found Jesse's Ford Cortina the next evening parked in a cul-de-sac. 12 days later, a land surveyor came upon what he thought was a mannequin's leg sticking out from a pile of leaves. When he poked the extremity with a stick …he saw skin move. It was the missing students. Details from the crime scene suggested the couple had been tortured and murdered by hanging. Word of the heinous crime shocked the Tarheel State. The next day's page 1 headline in the Durham Sun read: ‘Strangulation by Rope Killed Couple.” Over 50 years later, the double homicide remains North Carolina's most notorious unsolved murder. Tough, the case isn't without suspects.  Follow Jami on Instagram & TikTok @JamiOnAir and join the Serial Streamers true crime TV club! Subscribe to Jami's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jamionair Sponsors: City Beauty: Visit citylips.com and use code MURDERISH for 15% off sitewide. Dr. Marty's: Visit drmartypets.com/MURDERISH for up to 54% off Nature's Blend + a free bag of Cod Crispies. RoBody: Visit ro.co/MURDERISH for a membership starting at just $99 for your first month. Manscaped: Visit manscaped.com and use code MURDERISH for 20% off + free shipping. Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime - Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-money-moves-women-in-white-collar-crime/id1619521092. Lipstick & Lies - Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lipstick-lies/id1704189120?i=1000625570159 ‘Strange & Suspicious' by TMZ TV: Available on 12 major FOX stations - check your cable listings. Research and writing by: K. Brant Want to advertise on this show? We've partnered with Cloud10 Media to handle our advertising requests. If you're interested in advertising on MURDERISH, please send an email to Sahiba Krieger sahiba@cloud10.fm and copy jami@murderish.com.  Visit Murderish.com to learn more about the podcast and Creator/Host, Jami, and to view a list of sources for this episode.  Listening to this podcast doesn't make you a murderer, it just means you're murder..ish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“¿Una fábrica de coches que hace aviones? No, una fábrica de aviones que hacía coches”. Así comenzaba un video sobre Saab que hicimos hace 3 años ya… en ese video hablamos de su historia… pero no de sus coches. Hoy, y a petición popular, con este podcast, cubrimos ese déficit y hablamos de los 10 Saab más inolvidables. Uno de los encantos de Saab era que fabricaba aviones… y eso se notaba en sus coches. Sobre todo en los primeros, como iremos viendo. Pero ese no era su único encanto. Tenía más. Por ejemplo, su estética atractiva, pero sobre todo diferente: Un Saab era un Saab y lo reconocías a centenares de metros. Pocas marcas que no sean exclusivas pueden presumir de esto… Otra virtud era su tecnología, muy avanzada y, de nuevo tengo que decir sobre todo al principio, con soluciones técnicas muy originales. Eran además coches muy fiables y, desde luego, de una calidad muy destacable, en mi opinión, ya en los años 70, al nivel de las mejores alemanas, entonces y ahora un referente, sin dudarlo. Por todas estas razones Saab ha sido una marca que era y es muy querida por los aficionados… y a la que se le echa de menos. Es cierto que la llegada de General Motors en el 2000 la marca pierde gran parte de su identidad… estás grandes compañías, igual que Ford hizo, más bien perpetró con Jaguar, son incapaces de respetar la identidad de una marca. Y en 2010 llegaron los neerlandeses de Spyker Cars N.V. para “rematar” la faena y quebrarla en solo un año. A pesar de diversos intentos a día de hoy sobreviven con rentabilidad la división de aviones, a la que le ha venido muy bien la guerra de Ucrania y la división de camiones, Scania AB. Una pena. Todo esto lo contamos con todo detalle en el vídeo titulado: “¿Qué fue de Saab? De los aviones a los coches” También contamos que Saab significa “Svenska Aeroplan AB” o sea, en castellano, “Fabrica Sueca de Aviones S.L.” ... Ursaab: El original Saab (1946). Cuando en Saab pensaron en fabricar coches hicieron este prototipo, llamado también 92001 y X9248. A mí me gusta más el nombre de Ursaab porque en sueco. Literalmente, significa Saab original.Y en este caso la palabra original puede usarse en sus dos sentidos: Original por ser el primero y por ser diferente. Un dato curioso: De los 16 ingenieros que participaron en el diseño de este modelo solo 2 tenían carné de conducir. Saab 92: Tras el 91 Safir (1949). Como hemos dicho Saab fabricaba aviones y lo de los coches era una aventura. Acababan de lanzar un avión llamado Saab 91 Saffir y su siguiente lanzamiento era el coche… así que le pusieron el nombre de 92. Saab 95 Station Wagon: ¡7 plazas! (1959). Lo confieso: ¡me encantan estos Saab! Pero conocéis mi debilidad por loa Station Wagon, break o ranchera, como quieras llamarlo. Y el Saab 95, una evolución corregida y aumentada del 92 se lanza en versión “familiar” en 1959, apto para 7 plazas, las dos traseras en sentido opuesto a la marcha. Saab 96 2T: El último de su especie (1960). Al 92 le sucedieron las mejoradas versiones 93, luego 94 y el Station Wagon 95. El 96 era el coche que sustituía a los anteriores modelos… Su motor de dos tiempos, 750 cm3 y 38 CV fue mejorado con un 841 cm3 de 40 CV y ya con cuatro marchas. Fue el primer Saab en llevar reposacabezas, cinturones de seguridad y doble circuito de frenos en diagonal. Llego a haber una versión “Sport” con este motor, pero 57 CV de potencia. Saab 96 V4: Llegan los 4t (1964). La normas anti polución ya apretaban y los motores de 2 tiempos eran sencillos y potentes, pero no muy económicos. Saab no tenía motor de 4t ni tiempo para desarrollarlo ni dinero, pues un tradicional motor 4 en línea no cabía bajo el capo del 96. Pero un V4 a 60 grados sí podría caber. Era un motor raro, pero… que Ford fabricaba para sus Taunus entre otros modelos. Este motor inicialmente de 1.498 cm3 ofrecía 65 CV, menos emisiones y mucho menos consumo. Saab Sonett II: ¡Un deportivo! (1968). ¿Un Saab deportivo? Saab espoleada por los éxitos en competición decide vender un coche directamente para ser usado en competición: El Saab Sonett, hablamos de la serie I. Más que a Saab esta idea se le ocurrió a un loco, esos locos maravillosos de los que siempre hablo, Rolf Melide.El Sonett I fue solo un prototipo, pero ya como coche deportivo no orientado a la competición, nace en 1968 el precioso Sonett II. Lo curioso de este coche es que lo hubo en versión con motor 2t de Saab con 60 CV y luego con el V4 procedente del Ford Cortina con 65 CV. Saab Sonett III: ¡Qué bonito! (1970). Soy consciente de que soy un friki, pero este coche me encanta. La base es un diseño nada menos que del italiano Sergio Coggiola que fue modificado por el ingeniero sueco de Saab, Gunnar Sjögren que modificó la carrocería a de fibra para poderlo adaptar al chasis y motor V4 del Sonett 2. Saab 99 Turbo: Inicio de una historia de amor… (1977). El Saab 99 se presentó en 1968. Saab tenía un coche muy bueno, muy bien construido, pero con poca potencia para escalar a segmentos superiores. Y tenían el problema de que no cualquier motor cabía en ese vano motor… era necesario diseñar de cero un V6, algo costoso en tiempo y dinero. Pero los ingenieros suecos pensaron otra cosa: ¿Y si ponemos un turbo? Con este sistema el motor dos litros llegaba a los 145 CV y el coche superaba los 200 km/h. Esta historia la contamos con más detalle en un reciente vídeo titulado “Los primeros turbos… ¡que miedo!”. Saab 900 Aero Turbo 16: Amor a primera vista (1984). Era un fan absoluto de Saab… sin haber probado ninguno de sus coches. Y al poco de trabajar como probador llega a la redacción un Saab… yo grité. “¡Me lo pido!” Y me jefe y mis compañeros accedieron. Fue verlo en el garaje y me enamoré… hasta hoy. El coche era un 900 Aero Turbo 16 con motor 4 cilindros, dos litros, 16 válvulas, turbo y nada menos que 175 CV para un peso de 1.300 kg, nada excesivo en un coche de 4,7 metros y generoso equipamiento. Saab 9000 3.0 V6: El último auténtico (1995). Lo hubo con diversos acabados, como CD y CS, pero este coche es importante por tres cosas. Una: Contaba con la plataforma conjunta comparativa como el Alfa 164, Fiat Croma y el Lancia Thema, aunque con un toque Saab muy particular en sus reglajes de suspensiones. Dos: Fue el primer Saab con motor V6, un 3 litros procedente de GM con 210 CV. Tres: Para mí, es el último verdadero Saab… que luego siguieron haciendo muy buenos coches, pero que parecían evoluciones de lo anterior y no aportaban mucho. Conclusión. Como dicen las viejecitas en los duelos fúnebres, “siempre se nos van los mejores”. En el caso de Saab es cierto. Y espero que siga siéndolo porque verla renacer para hacer SUV eléctricos… ¡prefiero que se mantenga en la memoria tal y como esta! Pero, ¡Cuánto echamos de menos este tipo de marcas con tanta personalidad!

Hicimos un podcast de coches pesados… y rápidamente muchos me pedisteis éste, el de coches ligeros. ¡Y rápidamente lo hemos hecho! ¡Somos muy cumplidores! Pasamos de hablar de coches de 3 toneladas a coches de 300 y pico kg… ¡qué diferencia! Y os traigo nada menos que 15… porque he hecho unas pequeñas trampitas. Y es que hacer hoy día y con coches actuales de venta al público una lista de coches ligeros, casi equivale a hacer una lista de coches sencillos y baratos. Y es que podría deciros, sencilla y llanamente, que “los coches ligeros han muerto”. Por eso junto a coches de serie de venta en la actualidad os he traído algunos ejemplos de coche ligeros que no son actuales, pero son una referencia en este asunto. Y ya, para acabar de complicarlo todo he elegido coches actuales o muy actuales, pero… ¡un pero muy gordo!... ¡artesanales! 1. LCC Rocket. 386 kg. (1991). Con solo 386 kilogramos, anunciaba un 0 a 100 km/h en 4,4 segundos y solo se fabricaron 55 unidades. 2. Caterham Seven 170R. 440 kg. (Actualidad). La versión 170 R con motor Suzuki turboalimentado de 660 cm3 y 84 CV, marca sólo 440 kg en la báscula, lo que le permite acelerar de 0 a 100 en 6,9 segundos. 3. Renault Twizy. 450 kg. (Actualidad). Un coche diseñado y nacido para la ciudad y que debe su peso, entre otras cosas, a su reducido tamaño: 2,3 metros de largo y 1,4 metros de ancho. A pesar de ser eléctrico, era muy ligero, pero eso se pagaba en autonomía, que rondaba los 60 kilómetros. 4. De Tomaso Vallelunga. 500 kg. (1964). Cuando hablas de “De Tomaso” muchos piensan en preciosos deportivos con motor V8… lo que es cierto. Pero entre los años 1964 y 1968 nació este Vallelunga con un motor de 1,5 litros del Ford Cortina. 5. Fiat 500. 500 kg. (1957). Solo pesaba 500 kilos, pero su nombre no proviene del peso sino de la cilindrada de su motor bicilíndrico de refrigeración por aire, inicialmente 479 cm3 y 20 CV. 6. Lotus Elan. 584 kg. (1960). El mismo tío que decía “quítame un kg antes de darme un caballo” diseñó este coche. Hablamos por supuesto de Colin Chapman que fue el creador del Lotus Elan que pesaba 584 kilos, gracias a su chasis de viga central de acero y su carrocería de fibra de vidrio. 7. MINI 850. 580 kg. (1959). Quizás en este caso la ligereza fue una consecuencia, más que un objetivo. Porque el Mini era un coche pequeño, muy pequeño. Y bastante simple. Con el motor de cuatro cilindros y 850 cm3, el Mini pesaba 580 kilogramos. 8. Ariel Atom. 595 kg. (Actualidad). Tengo debilidad por los modelos fabricados por Ariel y en particular por el Atom. Hablamos de un biplaza con motor del Civic Type R, un 2.0 Turbo de 320 CV para 595 kg y consigues un “pepino” capaz de acelerar de 0 a 100 km/h en apenas 2,8 segundos. 9. Citroën AX. 640 kg. (1986). En el caso del AX la ligereza no era el objetivo principal… pero era el objetivo. Citroën quería un coche con un consumo muy bajo y para eso el peso es clave. El diseño del chasis, el empleo masivo del plástico e ideas muy originales, como el portón trasero sin estructura metálica, sino usando el propio cristal como estructura, permitieron un peso de 640 kg. 10. Spartan. 680 kg. (Actualidad). Este coche no es de las islas británicas, pero sí de una isla muy grande: Australia. La receta es parecida a la del Ariel: estructura tubular, carrocería de fibra de carbono, motor trasero 2.4 Honda de 275 CV y un peso de 680 kg en su versión básica. La aceleración de 0 a 100 es de sólo 3,3 segundos. 11. Suzuki Ignis. 935 kg. (Actualidad). El Ignis es el campeón de los coches ligeros producidos en grandes series. Hablamos de la versión básica, el Hybrid 2WD con el acabado más reducido con un peso en orden de marcha de sólo 935 kg. 12. Renault Twingo. 940 kg. (Actualidad). Aquí hacemos otra pequeña trampa porque en el momento de grabar este video la versión con motor de gasolina 1.0 SCE de 65 CV, la más ligera y que pesa solo 940 kg, no está disponible en España sonde solo se vende el eléctrico. Su aceleración de 0 a 100 km/h llega a los 15,1 segundos. 12+1. Mitsubishi Space Star. 940 kg. (Actualidad). El actual en su versión básica 1.2 pesa también 940 kg. con motor de gasolina de 1,2 litros y 71 CV. Tampoco es un “dragster” y acelera de 0 a 100 en 14,1 segundos. 14. Suzuki Swift. 965 kg. (Actualidad). Cuenta con la misma mecánica híbrida ligera de 83 CV del Ignis y acelera de 0 a 100 en 12 segundos además de tener un consumo muy bajo, en ciclo combinado: 4,7 litros cada 100 km. 15. Kia Picanto. 978 kg. (Actualidad). Y cerramos esta lista con el Picanto, al borde de la tonelada de peso en su variante más básica con motor 1.0 DPi de 67 CV pesa tan sólo 978 kg. acelera de 0 a 100 en 14,6 segundos y su consumo combinado es de 5,0 litros cada 100 km.

In this episode Gyles talks to the Leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer. This isn't a political interview, instead it's an in-depth and fascinating conversation about Keir's background and personal history. Keir reminisces about his childhood in a village in Surrey; he remembers cramped car journeys in a Ford Cortina with four kids and four dogs squeezed onto the back seat. He also describes the impact his mum's serious illness had on him, his father and on the rest of the family. This is, at times, a moving conversation. Gyles also hears about Keir's university days, about his love of football, and about his first encounter with his wife. Thanks to Keir for giving us his time and energy, and for sharing his stories. Enjoy this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Gyles talks to the Leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer. This isn't a political interview, instead it's an in-depth and fascinating conversation about Keir's background and personal history. Keir reminisces about his childhood in a village in Surrey; he remembers cramped car journeys in a Ford Cortina with four kids and four dogs squeezed onto the back seat. He also describes the impact his mum's serious illness had on him, his father and on the rest of the family. This is, at times, a moving conversation. Gyles also hears about Keir's university days, about his love of football, and about his first encounter with his wife. Thanks to Keir for giving us his time and energy, and for sharing his stories. Enjoy this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Rupert and Britt as they talk through their films of the week, covering everything from Christian horror through to Godfrey Ho! Speaking of which, Britt has discovered the best G-Ho film yet, and also acts upon a listener request, much to his dismay. Do you have the Greggs app installed on your phone, logging in under multiple accounts to get free  birthday sausage rolls, daily? Martin Lawrence does.   ArkinZ'Dar - Jon Voight to Richard E Grant

Andy and Jon are joined by Chuff, from Well Chuffed Media. He's an automotive photographer by trade, and Andy's had the pleasure of his professional company (that sounds a bit sordid) on a number of photoshoots with work. Talk starts with Chuff's cousin's Mk2 Golf GTI, then moves into a string of Ford Cortina's, takes in a full list, made in conjunction with his Mum, and rounds up with mention of VW campers, and Volkswagen Jettas too. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did making it. Support the showWe'd love you to hear and share your stories, please tag and follow us on social media. www.instagram.com/mydadscar_podcastwww.Facebook.com/mydadscar podcastwww.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscarIf you'd like to support the podcast and are able to, you can ‘buy us a coffee' which will help towards costs of hosting and purchasing equipment to allow us to record guests in person, rather than just on zoom. Get in touch with us direct - MyDadsCarPodcast@gmail.com

Jon and Andy are joined by Danny Hopkins, the editor of Practical Classics Magazine! Wow! Someone famous! Danny and Andy have chatted before, and as a trained actor you can enjoy some wonderful story telling, including him working on cars with his Father, and his Grandfathers (twice Nobel prize nominated) Triumph 2000 which he later restored and repainted, except the patch of headliner above the drivers seat which is still stained and smells of his pipe smoke!We jump into Austin Land Crabs, and Danny explains why they were so good, and Alec Issigonis' favourite car (over the Mini, no less!) We also touch on Austin 3 Litre, and later on a personal note a Triumph Spitfire Danny found in a barn, a Honda Insight and a twin turbo Mitsubishi GTO that's already earnt Danny a speeding ticket!Hope you enjoy this one as much as we did making it. Support the showWe'd love you to hear and share your stories, please tag and follow us on social media. www.instagram.com/mydadscar_podcastwww.Facebook.com/mydadscar podcastwww.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscarIf you'd like to support the podcast and are able to, you can ‘buy us a coffee' which will help towards costs of hosting and purchasing equipment to allow us to record guests in person, rather than just on zoom. Get in touch with us direct - MyDadsCarPodcast@gmail.com

There was a time when the Ford Cortina was ubiquitous in New Zealand. A hugely popular family car, or hotted up racer, seen up and down the country. Now a new book pays homage to all the Cortinas Marks I to V. Author and Cortina fan Gordon Campbell's book "Kiwis and Cortinas" places the car in New Zealand's motoring history. Gordon features 35 Ford Cortinas and their owners, from some who have just one Cortina to one who owns 12 and another who owns 26.

Welcome to the Lovecars On The Grid Motorsport podcast! Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman bring us the highlights from a jam packed week of motorsport from around the World! We start by paying our respects to Irish Rally Legend, Craig Breen, who sadly lost his life this week. Our very own Tiff Needell was driving at the Goodwood members meeting in a Ford Cortina. The World Endurance Championship was at Portimao in Portugal, with a win for Toyota, with Ferrari in 2nd place and Porsche in 3rd place. IMSA Sport cars were in Long Beach, which saw the first win for Porsche with the 963. Indycar were also racing at Long Beach, making for a fantastic weekend in California. Pat O'Ward made for a very late overtake attempt, which caused some controversy, but the win went to Kyle Kirkwood after achieving pole position for the race. We had action at the Circuit of the Americas with MotoGP. Spanish rider, Alex Rins won on his Honda, with Luca Marini in 2nd place on his Ducati. NASCAR was at Martinsville at a half mile track, where we had another win for Kyle Larson. Coming up next weekend, we have World Superbikes in Holland. Superformula is in Japan, plus NASCAR at Talledega, plus Formula E and BTCC are back!

Tim crook, AKA Tim B'Vard is the founder of the Bavard Bar, which is described as 'A delightful blend of TED, comedy and radio 4 - sort of'!The Bavard Bars opened its doors in March 2017 and has grown in popularity exponentially. It 'happens' in the Towner gallery in Eastbourne on the 2nd Wednesday of each month; and in the Kino- Teatr in St Leonards on the 3rd  Wednesday of every month...In this podcast Tim talks about his journey from Lawyer to his life now, on stage as a compere and comedian...He also tells us of his love of the outdoors and how it has always been linked to his deepest desire to know himself and to live fully in a way he recognised as a teenager...Here is the poem that Tim wrote at 16 years old, mentioned in the podcast The Hour Glass of LifeThe sand falls fast, in the hour glassFor the balding man about town.His youthful grin, his middle aged chin,Are replaced with a nod and a frown.He has searched for the meaning of life,In a video, TV and wife.He has climbed the rungs of success,And always gave of his best.But the sand falls faster now,And still he struggles on,Until his pills or his iron will,Or his Ford Cortina are gone.And what use is that video now,And by how much is he cleverer,Than the farmer's wife, the miner's sonOr death, the perfect leveller?You can find out more bout the Bavard Bar by clicking hereAnd on Twitter, instagram and Facebook he is@bavardbar

¡Hablemos de los años ’90! Fueron buenos tiempos y había muchos modelos coupé. ¿Buenos tiempos? Pues entonces muchos aficionados decían que eran un timo, que esos coupés, denominados “industriales”, eran berlinas “disfrazadas” con una carrocería mona y un motor ligeramente potenciado. Muchos de esos coupés están ahora a precios asequibles. ¿Timo u oportunidad? El concepto de deportivos industriales se comenzó a acuñar en Europa sobre todo con el Ford Capri… que a su vez no dejaba de ser una versión “a la europea” del Ford Mustang. ¿Por qué esa denominación? Muy sencillo, porque sobre el mismo chasis-plataforma del Ford Cortina, una berlina media, Ford propuso una carrocería coupé muy bonito y que fue un acierto. Un verdadero coupé, sí, pero ¿un verdadero deportivo? Si tenemos en cuenta que las versiones más vendidas eran las de motor de 1.3, 55 CV y la de 1.6 de 88 CV para un peso de más de 1.000 kg… pues muy deportivos no eran. Para mí, con excepciones contadas, los coupés son los coches más bonitos. Para mí y para mucha gente que se los compra por imagen y por su belleza y no tanto por sus prestaciones. Por eso, para mí, muchos de estos coupés de los 90 más que un timo, por no ser verdaderos deportivos, son una verdadera oportunidad para comprar coches clásicos o pre-clásicos muy interesantes y a veces a mejor precio. 1. Alfa Romeo GTV (1995) Lo vi en su estreno en el Salón de Ginebra de 1995. Sí, es cierto, es tracción delantera, ¡como todos los de esta lista! Pero con un interior tan bonito y con el motor V6 de tres litros, 24 válvulas y 220 CV, ¡no me digáis que no os gusta! 2. Audi Coupé B2 (1988) Confieso que me gusta más el B1, para entendernos, el coupé en el que está basado el Audi Quattro. Pero es de 1981 y el B2 se fabricó entre 1988 y 1997. También confieso que, estéticamente, puede que sea el menos atractivo, pero es un coche fiable y bien acabado. 3. Fiat Coupé (1993) Este diseño del estadounidense Chris Bangle no deja indiferente. Unos lo adoran y otros lo odian.. Confieso que ahora me gusta más que cuando salió. El que cuenta con el motor 5 cilindros, 20 válvulas y turbo, de 220 CV es un verdadero tiro y una compra recomendable. 4. Ford Probe (1988) Otro caso de un coche que fue y quizás siga siendo todo un “patito feo” … Este modelo, fruto de los acuerdos de Ford con Mazda, contaba con la plataforma nada menos que del RX7 y estaba bien terminado y con buenos ajustes. 5. Ford Puma (1997) Ya sabéis que yo no os engañó nunca… me puedo confundir, pero digo siempre lo que pienso… y ahora lo voy a decir… ¡no me gusta nada el Ford Puma! Y es que creo que, para lucir, todos los coches, pero los coupés también, hay un tamaño mínimo. Y, lo sé, el Puma no es pequeño, mide 4 metros de largo, como otros coches de esta lista. ¡pero parece encogido e hinchado! 6. Opel Calibra (1989) El Calibra sí que ha salido del purgatorio por el que pasan todos los coupés generalistas, por la puerta grande y ahora es un modelo cotizado…. Y con razón. En su momento toda la prensa dijimos que era el Opel de tracción delantera con mejor comportamiento de la historia, y es que este Coupé, supuestamente derivado del Astra iba mucho mejor. 7. Peugeot 406 Coupé (1997) Peugeot tenía ya tradición de hacer coupés derivados de las berlinas y diseñados por Pininfarina. Me encantaba el 504 berlina y más aún el 504 Coupé V6, diseño de Pininfarina. Con una buena base, el 406 ,y un buen diseñador… 8. Volkswagen Corrado (1989) Iba a llamarse Typhoon y situarse por encima del Scirocco. Pero no se llamó Typhoon ni llegó a situarse, claramente, por encima de su antecesor y a la vez coetáneo. Era claramente más pesado que el Scirocco y eso se notaba. 9. Volkswagen Scirocco II (1982) Es un coche fantástico pues, aunque está basado en el Golf GTi MK1 su bastidor, por explicarlo de forma sencilla, está a medio camino entre el Golf MK1 y MK2 y su comportamiento solo puede clasificarse de fantástico. 10. Volvo 480 (1986) Me encanta el P1800 Coupé de 1961 y este personalísimo 480 con tres puertas que pude ver en primicia en el Salón de Ginebra de 1986. El Turbo, con motor 1.7 litros y 120 CV daba mucho juego, era un motor agradable y un coche bien acabado… no me importaría nada tener uno. Coche del día. Cuando hablo de coches de los 80 y 90 me acuerdo de mi etapa de probador. Y recordando estos coches me he acordado de un coupé, muy especial, que me encantó: El Mazda MX3. Era, y seguramente siga siendo, el motor V6 de coche más pequeño del mercado, un V6 de 1.8 litros y 136 CV.

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We're talking to Craig Lowndes on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We open the first part of our two-part chat talking about buying his first road car, the Ford Cortina he drove while lead driver at the Holden Racing Team – and the white lie he told them about selling it. We also chat about the Formula Ford he's currently restoring, driving the ‘Black Death', a DJR test that didn't happen, how his drive in the 1994 Bathurst 12 Hour came about, plus the phone call from Jeff Grech that changed his life. We also chat about the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the ‘Green-Eyed Monster', his interviews with ‘Poida' (aka Eric Bana) and 60 Minutes, and the start of his Triple Eight era. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Pre-order your Bathurst 1000 program: https://bit.ly/3dafe5k

Hubo un tiempo en que no había modelos GTi ni nada parecido y que si querías un coche deportivo tenías que comprar un modelo coupé y, por supuesto, con propulsión trasera. Algunos los llamarón “Coupés industriales”. Yo los llamo deportivos “de verdad”. Vamos a comparar, seguramente, los dos mejores: El Ford Capri y el Opel Manta. Los coupés “industriales”. Antes de que apareciesen los GTi y todos sus derivados e imitadores había dos tipos de coches deportivos: Los nacidos y diseñados desde el primer momento como coches deportivos y los llamados “coupés industriales”. Y alguno se preguntará, “¿y eso qué es?”. Pues para hacer un deportivo una marca partía de una berlina media, cambiaba la carrocería y ya tenían un deportivo. Para las versiones más prestacionales se metía el motor más gordo posible y se reforzaba frenos y suspensiones… pero lo importante era la estética exterior y exterior. Porque del Ford Capri, hubo versiones de 1.3 litros, pero del Opel Manta las hubo de 1,2 y con ese tamaño y porte, os podéis imaginar que las prestaciones no eran muy “deportivas”; con comillas. Todo cambio, pero… ¿a mejor? El primer VW Golf GTi aparece en 1974 y no cambio todo inmediatamente, pero sí que fue el principio de un cambio importante y sin marcha atrás que llega hasta nuestros días. Hasta el GTi los deportivos eran modelos que debían parecer deportivos más que serlo y con los GTi cambiaba la propuesta: Debian ser deportivos, aunque no lo pareciesen. Así que poco a poco los deportivos dejaron de ser coupés con chasis-bastidor de berlinas y casi siempre de propulsión trasera a ser coches con poca apariencia deportiva, pero con prestaciones y comportamiento muy mejorado… y con tracción delantera, una forma muy eficaz de “democratizar” la conducción deportiva cuando no había ayudas electrónicas. Ford Capri: Inspirado en el Mustang. El Mustang comienza a venderse en 1964 y fue un éxito desde el primer momento. Y Ford quiere repetir ese éxito en Europa y en 1969 lanza la primera generación de este coche, el Capri, para mí la más bonita de todas. El Capri es una carrocería coupé puesta en el chasis de una berlina, el Ford Cortina. Incluso muchos de sus motorizaciones eran comunes, pues el Capri nace con motores de 1.3, 1.5 y 1.7 litros, pero acaba llevando todo tipo de motores, 4 en línea, 4 en V y 6 en V desde 1.3 litros a 3.1 litros, desde unos 60 hasta unos 150 CV. Opel Manta, ¡menudo lío! La verdad es que, desde mi punto de vista de periodista, GM lo complicaba mucho todo. El Manta es un ejemplo: Se vendió como Opel en la Europa continental e incluso en los EE.UU. de Norteamérica, pero también como Vauxhall en el Reino Unido y en algún otro mercado “raruno” y tuvo infinidad de variantes, series especiales y motorizaciones.La gama arrancaba con un modestísimo motor de 1.2 y 60 CV y el más potente era un 1.9. Opel Manta B, cambio drástico. Estéticamente el Manta B era otro coche mucho más moderno y luminoso. Hubo incluso una versión con portón posterior, como se decía entonces liftback, con denominación “CC” para complementar al modelo de dos puertas. La versión británica se llamaba Vauxhall Cavalier Sports Hatch. El Manta B llegó a montar un motor 2.0 litros de 110 CV y, como en el caso del A, la lista de versiones limitadas y-o especiales es infinita. Y por fin llegamos al Manta B2, aparecido en 1982 y que como en el caso del Capri es para mí la más conocida y la que más he probado. Por eso ha sido elegida para la comparativa. Capri vs. Manta. ¿cuál es mejor? Para hacer una comparativa he elegido versiones coetáneas, comparables, que conozco bien y prácticamente tope de gama. En el caso del Ford, el Capri III 2.8i V6 de 160 CV y fabricado entre 1978-1986. En el caso del Opel el Manta i200 de 1982 de 2.0 litros y 125 CV. Un modelo pensado para servir de base en competición y el primero de las series especiales que siguió con el i300 e i400 Ambos coches comparten arquitectura, con el motor delantero, cambio a continuación y propulsión posterior con eje rígido, algo que les confería un comportamiento delicado, especialmente en mojado y-o en firmes irregulares. También comparten una buena calidad de construcción en general y son robustos y fiables. Conclusión. ¿Cuál es mejor? Mejor no es, pero a mí me gusta más el Opel, sin duda más ágil y deportivo. Ahora bien, como clásico el Capri es más barato, más sencillo de mantener y más utilizable en el día a día. Coche del día. Lo tengo claro: Un Opel Manta i400 homologado en Grupo B. Obviamente este coche nada tenía que hacer frente a sus rivales mucho más sofisticados con tracción total y turbo, salvo en rallyes “destructivos”. Pero su versión de calle, aligerada y con motor de 245 CV era una verdadera pasada y conducirlo, un verdadero disfrute. Un merecido coche del día.

Mike Bubbins is a good bloke, a good husband and a good Dad, but he never quite feels like he fits in. Not in an odd way, he's keen to point out. It's just he dresses like he lives in the 70s, his house looks like a 70s film set, and he drives a 70s Ford Cortina. So yeah, in other words, in an odd way. He's not done bad for a lad who failed his A-Levels, became a PE teacher (see 'failed his A-levels'), worked as an Elvis impersonator, and then signed up for a writing course but got the wrong day and turned up for a stand-up comedy course instead. Because it was raining, and his wife had already dropped him off, he decided he might as well stay. Eleven years later, he presents his debut Radio 4 show. We've all been through a lot, emotionally and psychologically, with the extraordinary events of the pandemic. In the middle of the biggest crisis the world has witnessed since the war, we all had to assess who we were, what our priorities were, what our core relationships are and how robust they really are. Luckily, Bubbins isn't interested in any of that. He wasn't even involved in the pandemic. Because he lives in the 70s. In this show, he aims to take us back to a time before Covid and other complexities - a much simpler time. Written and performer by Mike Bubbins, recorded at Mach Festival, 2022. Produced by Siren Turner and Lianne Coop. An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4

The VW Golf is the third best-selling car in history, behind the top-selling Toyota Corolla and Ford F-Series of pickup trucks. More than 35 million of the versatile vehicles have sold since the car's debut as a 1974 edition. With the motoring icon approaching its 50th anniversary, author Russell Hayes has expanded and upgraded his book The Volkswagen Golf Story to include the full Golf 7 range and the latest incarnation, the Golf 8. The new edition is available from Behemoth Publishing  Co-host Bruce Aldrich is on assignment, so I interview Hayes this week on The Weekly Driver Podcast. Russell Hayes has authored his eighth book and second on the VW Golf. "Europe has always been the Golf's natural habitat; it's been one of the top sellers for a long time and I believe it still might be right now, " said Hayes while describing details of his eighth book. "But in the U.S., it's had a very interesting up and down career. VW: The long winding road "Although largely it's been replaced by the Jetta, I found the story of the Golf in the U.S. very interesting because they built them here between 1978 and 1987. It was trying to be a homegrown Golf and it was quite different than the European one." As Hayes details in Episode #222, VW Golf buyers in the U.S. eventually decided they'd rather have a European edition and U.S. production shutdown. The marketing for the second edition of The Volkswagen Golf Story elaborates: "The Volkswagen Golf is a motoring paradox, seemingly never really changing its look but always pushing technical development forward as a ‘classless' car which still carries a ‘premium' feel about it. While the VW Golf wasn't the first front-wheel-drive hatchback, its interpretation established the template for others to follow and the benchmark by which they are still judged today." VW: Lots of key industry players Author Russell Hayes discusses the history of VW in his book Volkswagen Beetles and Buses. From the development of the first VW Golf to interviews with key figures — Volkswagen's first designer to its former chairman — the book is the definitive history of the iconic vehicle. A London-based motoring author, Hayes has written eight books, including the first edition of The Volkswagen Golf Story in 2014. He has also written about the VW Beetle and Type 2 van. Other subjects have been as mixed as Lotus, the Ford Cortina, Aston Martin V8s and the Earls Court Motor Show. Hayes, also a guest on The Weekly Driver Post on Episodes #209 and #153, was formerly a motoring journalist for British magazines and national newspapers. He has also worked for TV programs such as Top Gear, The Car's the Star and Driven. VW: The little car phenomenon Please join me for an intriguing 30 minute-episode as Hayes and I discuss the phenomenon of the Volkswagen Golf. Hayes was also a guest on: Episode #209: The Big Book of Tiny Cars Episode #153: Volkswagen: Beetle to Buses, Smaller and Smarter. The Weekly Driver Podcast encourages and appreciates feedback from our listeners. Please forward episode links to family, friends and colleagues. And you are welcome to repost links from the podcast to your social media accounts. The idea of more eyeballs on more content works for us. Support our podcast by shopping on Amazon.com. A graphic display at the bottom of the post links to automotive selections of the online retailer. But there's also a search function for anything available directly from the site. If you shop via this site, we receive a small commission. It helps us continue to produce independent content. The site began in 2004 and includes more than 700 reviews. The podcast is in its fourth year, and we've had a diverse collection of guests — famous athletes, vintage car collectors, manufacturer CEOs, automotive book authors, industry analysts, a movie stuntman and episodes from auto shows and car auctions. Please send comments and suggestions for new episodes to James R...

In the summer of 1976 two serial killers stalked the roads of Ireland in a Ford Cortina looking for young women to abduct, rape and murder in order to “fulfil” their “shared fantasy” of raping and killing one woman every week while in Ireland. When they arrived in Ireland, they didn't immediately start with the killing. They actually went on a crime spree in Wicklow where they committed a series of burglaries before being sent to Mountjoy Prison. When they were released from prison, they decided that they would do what they wanted, namely the aforementioned fantasy. Later, after they were arrested for the final time, they ended up telling the gardaí that they had decided to “embark on an unprecedented and macabre programme of abduction, rape and murder.” Stay safe out there. With love, Saaniya and Maddie x Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Evans https://extra.ie/2020/02/05/news/irish-news/serial-killer-john-shaw-release https://www.irishtimes.com/news/english-duo-were-state-s-first-serial-killers-1.1167586 https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/evil-killer-john-shaw-recycling-21263644 ​​https://justcriminals.info/2016/11/12/john-shaw-geoffrey-evans-1976/ https://www.thejournal.ie/irelands-longest-serving-prisoners-2542447-Jan2016/

Trees are rewilded, wounded, reclaimed, reset.  There are generational poems and tales of grandmothers, mothers, daughters, patriarchy, apple tarts, hopes, losses and survival.  We have the renewing force of a dip in the sea, a trip back in time to the Mountshannon Regatta and the green persistence of that man Pan.  We even have an old Ford Cortina!  Interspersed with music by SON Susan O'Neill, Shona Blake, The Wailin'Jennys, Caoimhín O'Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman, and CoCo and the Butterfields.  This show is dedicated to the memory of Picia Harvey Kelly.   Mountshannon Arts is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Clare Co. Council. Originally broadcast on Saturday 5th June 2021

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JC Stewart is Ireland's next biggest musical export. We don't say this lightly. He has grown his monthly Spotify listens to over 3 million. His music is getting more and more airplay across the water and now he has Niall Horan on board for his latest single. 'Break My Heart' is an absolute gold standard slice of perfect pop. The follow up to 'I Need You To Hate Me' is a cracking single and establishes him firmly as the self-confessed "Sadboy" of music! The video (below) was directed by Charlie Sarsfield who worked with Dermot Kennedy and Stormzy. Fast & The Furious JC tells Fergal D'Arcy about making the video which involved doing donuts in an a classic Ford Cortina (the guy who taught him worked on Fast & The Furious!) working with his heroes Tom Odell and Niall Horan and loads more [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2021/01/08143117/JC-STEWART-FULL-BREAK-MY-HEART-PROMO-.mp3"][/audio] Check out the video here    

Do you ever pay much attention to your feet? Our feet are our first point of contact with the ground, and we walk around on them all day. But most people just wear shoes and call it a day. And if you’re a runner, then all the more reason to maintain good foot health! So how do we take care of our feet? Dave Liow, an exercise physiologist and holistic movement coach, joins me in this episode to discuss feet and how to optimise foot health. We talk about some common foot conditions, and he also shares advice on selecting the right shoes and improving foot mechanics. For runners and everyone else, don’t miss this episode and learn how you can achieve good foot health!   Get Customised Guidance for Your Genetic Make-Up For our epigenetics health program all about optimising your fitness, lifestyle, nutrition and mind performance to your particular genes, go to  https://www.lisatamati.com/page/epigenetics-and-health-coaching/. You can also join their free live webinar on epigenetics.   Online Coaching for Runners Go to www.runninghotcoaching.com for our online run training coaching.   Consult with Me If you would like to work with me one to one on anything from your mindset, to head injuries, to biohacking your health, to optimal performance or executive coaching, please book a consultation here: https://shop.lisatamati.com/collections/consultations   Order My Books My latest book Relentless chronicles the inspiring journey about how my mother and I defied the odds after an aneurysm left my mum Isobel with massive brain damage at age 74. The medical professionals told me there was absolutely no hope of any quality of life again, but I used every mindset tool, years of research and incredible tenacity to prove them wrong and bring my mother back to full health within 3 years. Get your copy here: http://relentlessbook.lisatamati.com/ For my other two best-selling books Running Hot and Running to Extremes chronicling my ultrarunning adventures and expeditions all around the world, go to https://shop.lisatamati.com/collections/books.   My Jewellery Collection For my gorgeous and inspiring sports jewellery collection ‘Fierce’, go to https://shop.lisatamati.com/collections/lisa-tamati-bespoke-jewellery-collection.   Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: Find out how to take better care of your feet. Discover the benefits of going barefoot. Learn how to select the right shoe for you.   Resources Holistic Movement Coach on YouTube The HMC Footy Show, foot exercises on YouTube How to start looking after your feet on YouTube Exercises for bunions on YouTube Holistic Movement Coach website   Episode Highlights [03:29] Why Feet? When he started looking at movement, Dave noticed that the feet were one of the areas trainers had no idea about. People have 28 bones in the feet and 55 articulations from below the knee. Over a third of the bones here are in the feet, which tells us how important they are. It’s an area largely being neglected by movement experts and professionals. [05:45] What Shoes Do to Our Feet So much space in the brain is devoted to our feet and hands, and if you walk around with sensory deprivation chambers on them, you’ll lose that space. The bottom of the foot (plantar fascia) is extremely precarious, full of reflectors that send information to your brain about how you’re moving and interacting with the ground. By wearing shoes, we break that link. [09:56] Improving Foot Mechanics and Foot Health Keep your feet out of shoes as much as possible. Whenever Dave has the chance to go barefoot, he does. By going barefoot, you are giving as much information to your feet as you possibly can. Shoes provide a lot of support for your feet. Not wearing shoes will improve your feet’s strength. A healthy foot is a mobile foot. If you can’t do a lot with your toes, it shows you need to do some conditioning on your feet to make them smarter and stronger. Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common foot problems runners encounter. Listen to the full episode to learn more about some of the most common foot conditions! [17:21] Bunions and How They Affect Your Foot Health The exact cause of bunions is up for debate, but there is certainly a genetic and environmental component to it. A bunion is when your big toe starts to go in and some calcification forms around the joint. Bunions cause compressions in the foot, leading to problems in the nerves between the bones of your foot. There should be adequate space between your toes, allowing your foot to move and breathe. This also applies to your footwear—your shoe should have a wide toe box to give your toes enough space. You can do foot exercises for bunions to prevent the need for surgical treatment. [24:10] How to Deal with Plantar Fasciitis Typically, people who have plantar fascia issues will feel the bottom of their foot locked up, especially in the morning. Increasing your running distance too quickly and incorrect foot mechanics are common causes of plantar fasciitis. Icing the foot takes some of the pain away. Applying light pressure on the affected area can hydrate the tissues and make them healthier. Adding the right kind of load to it will help line up the fibres and make it strong again. Movement issues can disappear if you keep your body balanced. [29:55] On Running Shoes Dave and Lisa talk about a shoe that reportedly takes 4% of your running time. More track records are broken lately due to the improvement in the technology used to create running shoes. These new shoes are all about sports and performance, not health. There are different types of shoes for different purposes. Being barefoot all time can also cause issues because what goes on your skin can absorb what goes on it. [37:11] The Truth about High Heels When you add an incline to your heel, it lifts you and pushes you forward, breaking your kinetic chain. To avoid falling on their faces, people who wear high heels adjust by pushing their posture forward and arching the lower back more. When you’re in high heels, you’re effectively pointing your toes. This shortens the calf muscles, which can end up reducing the motion in your ankle, pulling you into pronation, and collapsing the arch. Wearing high heels often can change the way your muscles work. [44:21] Supplementation for the Cartilage and Joints Dave reads up on what he thinks is useful and what’s not, and he uses it on an individual basis. A decent multivitamin is a good place to start. Dave is a fan of probiotics and fish oil. However, if you’re sensitive to histamine, do your research first before taking probiotics. He also recommends working fermented food like kimchi and sauerkraut into your diet if it suits you. [51:08] Dave’s Take on Orthotics Dave thinks if you have a foot without a structural issue or a neurological deficit, you can do without orthotics. Orthotics provide support and are often prescribed to block motion. Foot mechanics change when you have your foot on the ground versus in the air. A lot of the mechanics that are put into orthotics aren’t done in a closed chain, which changes the whole way the foot works. If you think you may need an orthotic, consult first with someone who knows how they work and can give you proper advice. Dave takes a holistic approach when it comes to foot health [1:00:06] Dave’s Experience with Reflexology There are different types of reflexology, but it’s often associated with feet. The idea is your body is represented in smaller areas of your body that you can access. Dave has tried reflexology on himself, and it worked well. He particularly had some good results with the sinus points around the toes, which help to clear the sinuses. He finds it relaxing, because looking after your feet is looking after your whole body—it’s all connected. [1:02:52] How to Select the Right Shoe Be careful of the marketing of shoe science. In reality, it isn’t the shoe that makes the difference. Pick a neutral shoe that feels good. Research shows the more comfortable your shoe is, the more efficient you are. Get the lightest and the most minimalist shoe that you are happy with.   7 Powerful Quotes from This Episode ‘I’m constantly dumbfounded by how little care people have taken on their feet’. ‘The foot and the ankle are a huge player in my model and certainly one that I think having a very big impact on how people move well’. ‘Shoe choice doesn’t start and finish when you’re done running—it’s throughout the day’. ‘Be careful where you expose your feet to because it will go in you and then we'll take it into your health. There's time and place for everything’. ‘It’s not about speed and power… It’s keeping everything as best as you can in optimal performance and stopping things before they fall down the cliff and being in that preventative space’. ‘If you think you can get everything out of your diet, even if you’re eating organic, you probably can’t… So certainly, some supplementation is useful’. ‘It’s not the shoe that does the running; it’s the person that does the running. Technique and conditioning and looking after yourself and your health has much more effect than a shoe ever will’.   About Dave Liow Having mentored many coaches and trainers in New Zealand and Australia, Dave Liow is following his passion for sport and health and love for teaching. As a health professional, exercise physiologist and the founder of the Holistic Movement Coach Programme, he is constantly striving to find ways to be healthier and move better. You may connect with Dave on LinkedIn or Facebook. You can also visit his website or watch his YouTube videos to learn how to take better care of your feet.   Enjoy the Podcast? If you did, be sure to subscribe and share it with your friends! Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning in, then leave us a review. You can also share this with your family and friends so they can know how to achieve good foot health. Have any questions? You can contact me through email (support@lisatamati.com) or find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. For more episode updates, visit my website. You may also tune in on Apple Podcasts. To pushing the limits, Lisa   Full Transcript of the Podcast! Welcome to Pushing The Limits, the show that helps you reach your full potential with your host, Lisa Tamati, brought to you by lisatamati.com. Lisa Tamati: Hi everyone, and welcome back to Pushing The Limits this week. So I have two guests. Dave Liow this time. Now Dave is a repeat offender on the show, and I love having him to guest. He is one of my great mentors. And I hope you're gonna get a lot out of today's session.  Today, it's all about feet or so. This is one for the runners out there for sure. But also for just optimizing your foot health and also the whole kinetic chain, your feet where you connect with the ground obviously, and it affects your whole body. So we go to a deep dive into looking after yourself in regards to your feet. For the runners out there, it's all about playing for charters and bunions and picking the right running shoes. But there's also a whole lot of need for people to just have—want to know about good foot health.  Before we head over to the show, Christmas is coming. So if you want to grab one of my books, or one of my jewellery pieces, I’ll love that. You can head over to lisatamati.com. All the things are on there. And we're gonna be having a little break over the Christmas period. Maybe one, maybe two weeks from the show. I'm not quite sure at the stage, depending on the team's requirements over that period. So I hope you do have a good time of the Christmas. If you're listening to this afterwards, I hope the New Year's starting off really well for you. Before I go over to the show, just a reminder, I do have a couple of places left. We're nearly full on our one-on-one consultations, health optimization coaching. If you have a problem that you'd like to get help with, whether it's a high performance, whether you're a top athlete and wanting to get to the next level, whether you're wanting to work on your mindset, or maybe you've got a really complicated health challenge that you're just not getting any answers for, or you're having trouble sifting through all of the information and getting the right stuff—then please reach out to me, lisa@lisatamati.com. Right. Now over to the show with Dave Liow from the Holistic Movement Coach.  Lisa Tamati: Well, hi everyone. Welcome back. Today I have the amazing, the incredible, awesomest, Dave Liow on the show. Dave, welcome back, repeat offender.  Dave Liow: Hi Lisa. Lisa: I'm super stoked to have you today. Dave Liow: For the podcast you mean, right? Lisa: You’re a repeat offender for the podcast. Coming back to give us more. Not an offender in any other way.  Dave is an expert that I've had on before and he's definitely one of my mentors. And he's been to—Neil, my business partner for many years. And he is a mentor to many of the coaches and top trainers in New Zealand and Australia. So that's Dave's background. And you've got a background in physiology, don’t you Dave? Dave: Yes.  Lisa: You have a company called the Holistic Movement Coach. And will you—we're going to talk today about feet. People are like, ‘Wow, that's really interesting topic to talk about’. But it is. It's really, really exciting. Last time we had you on the show, we talked about the science of life, and that was one of the most popular episodes. So I'm really…  Dave: Great! Lisa: …happy to have you back on and to share some more of your absolute amazing wisdom. So today we've picked feet. What are we gonna to talk about, Dave? What are we going to share about feet and what you need to be aware of? Dave: Well feet’s one of those interesting ones. So from—as a movement professional, which is really my background. Though, being a holistic movement coach, if you just look at movement, you're gonna come unstuck pretty soon. So when I started looking at movement though, one of the things that I noticed that was one of the areas that were neglected were feet.  So we're seeing or looking at people's lumbar spines all the time and come to wideness not losing link from the top of the head. But a lot of trainers and movement professionals weren't even looking at people's feet. They had no idea what was going on, underneath those shoes of theirs. So for those of you who might think about maybe the back, whatever. Imagine if someone was wearing a big potato sack over their whole body, and you couldn't see where the spine was at trying to train them. So trying to work with someone and get them to move well without looking at their feet is to me just crazy.  Lisa: Yes, nonsensical. Dave: Yeah. And we've got 28 bones in the feet. So 28 bones, and we've got 55 articulations from below the knee. Lisa: Wow. Dave: So over a third of the bones are in the feet there. So that tells you about just how important that area is there. We have a look at the muscles that run down below the knee too. We've got 50 muscles. So added it, 276 ortho muscles, I think that's about right muscles. We have 50 below the knee so that shows you just how important there is. And it's an area that I think has been largely neglected by moving professionals. Lisa: Yes, it makes the total amount of sense. And we are on them all day, and we just shove them in a pair of shoes. And sometimes those shoes, you know, like ladies' high-heeled shoes, and tight shoes, and badly shaped shoes and don't do a lot barefoot—going out barefoot. Let’s start there, let’s start like—what does shoes do? When we put a pair of shoes on our feet? What sort of things are we taking away from our brain? Like, I always liken it to going around with a pair of gloves on my hands all day. I'm not going to be able to paint a picture and initiate anything, am I? Because I've just taken away all my proprioception and my ability to coordinate those fine motor controls with my hands. So we get that sort of analogy but actually, we do that to our feet all the time. Dave: And that's a wonderful analogy, Lisa. And so the representation in your brain of your body is called homunculus. So your brain has representations of all your different body parts. And some body parts are represented very, very—have a very large representation in the brain because they may have a lot of sensation and require a lot of fine movement.  So there's a huge representation in your brain of your face because if you look at the number of expressions you can do, and the articulations you can do with your tongue, your lips—there's a lot of area in the brain devoted to the face. Same with the hands as well. So you look at the fine movements you can do in your hands, isn't it? And how pink your hands are say compared to your elbow. It's incredible how much space in the brain is devoted to the hand.  Now one other is the feet. The feet have a massive representation in the brain as well. But with that, though, we know the brain is plastic. It can evolve and it will adapt to whatever environment you're putting it into. If you're walking around with that, the gloves on your hand, or in this case as one of my mentors Phillip Beach would say, ‘With sensory deprivation chambers on your feet’… Lisa: Wow. Dave: ‘…you will lose that representation in your brain’. And the bottom of the feet is extremely propiocept. Isn’t it? So many on that plantar fascia, that part of the foot there, is full of receptors which send information up to your brain. Giving you information about where you are, how you're interacting with the ground, and how you're moving. And without that, and by breaking that link there, there's a price to pay. Lisa: Yes, yes. And we just willy nilly wear shoes from the day we're born, pretty much. And if we're lucky in childhood, we might have run around bare feet a little bit. But most of us have got his feet and shoes all day. So you're saying that the—what did you call it? the munculus? Dave: Homunculus. Lisa: Humunculus? Dave: Homunculus.  Lisa: I never heard one before. I did, like, hear the representations. Like I don't know where I picked this up, some podcasts, some ways, something. If you have two fingers that you tape together for say a month. Dave: Yes. Lisa: When you untape them, you are unable to move them separately because the brain has wired them as being one unit. Another example of this is where people—they lose a limb. The brain still has the representation of that limb, even though the limbs are gone and they feel the pain of that limb. And this is like, the brain is like, ‘Hey, why? Where's my arm gone? Where's my leg gone’? or whatever.  And we're doing this to much lesser degree but when we don't need our toes and our things wiggle and wobble and do the proprioception. Okay, and we can improve our performance. Now, as runners are listening to us, let's talk about a little bit why this is important for runners to be able to sense the grounds and have good proprioception. So what are some of the advantages of having good—taking good care of our feet and maybe going bare feet a little bit. Dave: Oh, massive. One of my buddies, one of the things he has around feet—he has a lot of background in horse training. And he says, ‘No foot, no horse’. If you have a horse which damaged his hoof, then that's pretty much the end of that horse. They can't do a lot. And for you being an ultra-runner, Lisa, I'm sure you understand when your foot goes wrong.  Lisa: Oh, yes. I'm in trouble.  Dave: Yes, you are, you're in a lot of trouble. So I'm constantly dumbfounded by how little care people have take on their feet. I work on my feet every day without fail.  Lisa: Wow.  Dave: I'm certainly not an ultra-runner. I'm not the same class as you guys. But the amount of care that I take on one of my major movement teachers… I know this time when I lift… Lisa: So okay, what are some of the things that you would do to improve your foot mechanics and your proprioception and stuff? I mean, obviously, it's a little bit difficult with our podcasts and we can't show. I’ve got some video but… Dave: So there's that saying, ‘use it or lose it’. If your foot’s in a sensory deprivation chamber, you're gonna lose it pretty quick. So I like my foot to be out of things as much as possible, though... Lisa: Like right now? Dave: Yes. Quite a surprise, no shoe. Yes, I don't really wear shoes much. I wear [10:14 unintelligible] more than other shoes. If I'm running off-road, I'll certainly—and on concrete—I’ll wear some shoes. And we'll kind of talk about the shoe design a bit later on. But whenever I can go barefoot, I will. So if I can give as much information to my feet as possible—that's going to keep them smart, but also gonna keep them strong because shoes add support. That's what they are.  Lisa: Yes. Dave: You will not believe how much support shoes add. And you'll notice when you take them away, if you try and run barefoot, if you've been wearing sickly shoes with a lot of stability that added in there. So by going barefoot a fair amount of time, you get a very strong foot as well. So that doesn't come down to running shoes. And I guess we'll talk about running shoes in a bit.  But if you're wearing running shoes all day, even when you're not running, well, you're adding support there 24/7. I understand that some people might want more support when you're running, when you've got high forces going through your feet, but walking around and running shoes all day or highly-supportive shoes. You're basically walking around with. Lisa: Crutches. Yes, and making yourself lazy. You're making yourself lazy. Yes. Dave: Yes, right. So you're certainly going barefoot as much as possible. Now I do a lot of work at night to make sure that my foot’s mobile. A healthy foot is a mobile foot. So one of the things that they’ll often say is ‘the foot is not a hoof’. A hoof is rock solid and hits the ground and off the coast. So look at what you can do with your hand. Okay, you should do an awful lot with your toes as well and get them moving. So if you've lost the ability to do that, it really shows that you need to do some conditioning work on your feet and get them smarter and stronger.  Lisa: And if you don't, this is where some problems come up. If you can wiggle your toes and all that sort of stuff, you can prevent issues like yes—let's look at a couple of a common running problems that people get. Things like plantar fasciitis is a biggie, or even going up the leg a little bit. Like shin splints, and the problems in the calf, in the Achilles. Are these coming from the feet at all? Dave: Well, they’re coming from running. And there's some sort of mechanics going on there. But think of the foot, that's your first contact with the ground. When that goes wrong, everything in the chain will [12:37 unintelligible]. And if we think about something like a marathon, you've got 30 to 50,000 impact on the ground. That's a lot of race. So something's going wrong. This repetition over and over and over again. That's gonna end up breaking you.  And we're talking about forces, which you can't—two to five times your body weight depending how you're running. Now that’s a hell of force, a hell of a repetition. If something's not working right there, you will pay the price. Will you pay that price? Well, it depends.  But if we look at running injuries, straight off the top. Probably 15% of those will be at the knee. So the knee is normally the one that pays the price. But you know, I often say this in my lectures. Knee’s a dump. I knew that they kind of extracted and they've been—they have a little bit of rotation. But you see that one too much. And they have a little bit of sideways motion, but you don’t want too much of that either. So the knees are dump. So it's not only the knees fault that the knee gets some problems. It's normally the foot and ankle, or it's normally the hip, that's normally where I'll go.  And if you're a runner and you're getting knee pain, I'd be looking at either the foot and ankle. After the foot and ankle I will be looking at their hips straight away. There's something going wrong in those areas there. So about 50% of people will get knee pain more common in females than males by a long shot. Now, we look at kind of around, kind of Achilles as well. That's another area that can get a fair bit of problems as well. That's probably around… Lisa: That's mum, as usual. Ringing in the middle of the podcast. Dave: Calling mum. So around 10% of people get Achilles issues. That's another really common one and that's more a male thing. So that's the case, the 40 plus male is that actually the shoe. But then you'll get your IT band and touch that, which is probably around like 5% of the injuries. [14:32 unintelligible] can be in the foot or your tibia as well. And that's probably around 5% too.  So those are the main injuries. You'll see that getting running back, but knees if I was gonna go after one injury in running, knees are normally the one that pay the price. And there's certainly a big relationship between the foot and the knee. Ginormous. Lisa:  Right. So it's not always go up. Mechanics of the knees is the actual problem is down, or above, or below.  Dave: Yes. Almost always. Unless you've had an impact at the knee? Yes, you can treat the knee and always look at knee because if people come and see you for a knee injury, if you start playing the beat straight away, they'll go, ‘Well, hang on’.  Lisa: ‘What's this going on’? But it does make sense that the kinetic chain and the linking together and trying to find out where the original problem was coming from. Not just where—because like Neil's always said to me, ‘You know, like, if you've got a problem with your ankle, it can affect your shoulder’. And I’m like, ‘How does that work’? You know? Dave: Absolutely. Yes. Where it goes, nobody knows. Lisa: And how do you trace it back? How do you trace up a back problem to the ankle? Or the piriformis? Dave: If you know what it should look like and it doesn't look like what it should look like, well, what happens if you change and make it look more like it should? How does that change things? And that's normally in a nutshell the approach that I'll take. I guess that’s where you need to have a reasonable reference library of saying that, nothing more than my fair share of runners. And I'm sure you have too. I mean, if you feel someone running down the street, now you go, ‘That's not a very experienced runner’, or ‘Oh, boy, that's very experienced runner’. Well, you know that because you've seen so many runners.  So having that, I guess, experience in that database to draw from, and then understand the mechanics, and really add into it what you got. And I know what you gotta do in your Running Hot business. Well, you understand your body and you understand running technique, you can put that together and solve some wonderful problems.  Lisa: Yes, absolutely. But it is like a bit of a counterintuitive thing. I had a guy like, ‘Oh my piriformis’. Like Neil said to me the other day when he saw me, ‘Oh my God. Your bunions are getting really out of control. We got to do something about that’. And I'm like, ‘Oh, is it’? Sometimes you don't notice the things because you're just seeing them every day. You know? So let's talk about—let’s say some specific type of things that we are looking at. So let's look at bunions for that. What are bunions? And what effect can they have on the mechanics of your feet and up the body? Dave: Yes. So bunions—the quarter bunions is up for debate. There is certainly a genetic component to it. So either your mum probably has bunions. I guess. Lisa: Yes. Yes. Yes, you're right on money.  Dave: But that there’s also a big environmental part to it as well. So bunions, when your big toe starts to go in, then you'll end up with normally some calcification around that, well, that first joint—the joint in the big toe—that's probably a better way of saying it, around there as well.  What that does too is compresses the foot. The big toe goes sideways compared to it goes to the next [18:02 unintelligible], that compresses the foot, as well. So we get a lot of compression in that foot. They cause a number of problems. In between those bones in your foot. You've got a lot of nerves that run through there. So when those toes get compressed together, those nerves can get very irritated. Next, become very, very painful.  So and probably just as a little sideline here, if you were to pop your hands just in front of you there—if you're driving a car, listen to this, it's probably not such a good idea. But try this later on, you just put your hand down and look at your hand. So notice the space between your fingers there, that you put your foot down and have a look at your foot, you should also see space between your toes as well. Spacing’s really important to allow that room for the foot to move, to breathe. And also to get those space for all those straps in your foot to go. Lisa: And that’s with you naturally just having the foot there and not trying to spread them but just... Dave: Just naturally you should see space between your toes.  Lisa: Oh, wow. Dave: That you see a nice wide foot there. I love it. I love a good wide foot. Yes, so compression in those toes. And that can be a footwear choice thing too. So if you have shoes, and we've talked about toe box, that's the front part of a shoe. So we go out the toe box, this area through here. So the step front pair of shoes give a wide toe box in a shoe design that lets the foot spread out versus one that narrow and pushes the toes together. Lisa: Gosh. I should know about that. Yes. A lot of the shows that I get, I get sponsored by some brand or whatever. And then like I couldn't wear them.  Dave: Yes, the kiwi foot. Yes, and also this is a column that does this as well.  Lisa: Yes.  Dave: And with me, I've got a nice wide foot. I will not wish you for the narrow toe. It caused me nothing but problems. So footwear choice can be one of the things they also drive a bunion.  Now the other part too is that, when you've got that big toe and that big toes moving sideways, rather than going through the foot, you will often go inside the foot and fall into it. You get more pronation than what you normally have. So we lose the arch of the foot because the way the foot’s designed to move is your desire to move through and move through the big toe.  So, when we talk about the cycle of walking and running, we even have a phase of that called toe off. Because that's a really important part with a big toe pushes off. So if your big toe is going sideways, it's going to be—when you can't go through the toe, we’ll have to go around the toe. And that will cause a lot of wear and tear that can, after a while, that will start to break that foot down.  Now that may require you to drink, unless you do some exercises. In Sydney, we have some real bunion experts and my team, some of my guys love working with bunions. And you can certainly bring that foot back if you have surgery to repair bunions. So if you don't do the work, well the same thing is going to happen again. You just go straight across and they'll end up having to cut your foot open. Lisa: Yes, yes. Dave: My mum had bunions. But I gave her a little exercise program, and I'm pretty sure that's on my—that may be on my YouTube channel.  Lisa: Okay, we might get the link off here.  Dave: And yes, if not, I'll put it on there. And yes, she had some exercise to do for bunions. Her bunions pain disappeared and my mum's in her 70s. So you can certainly reverse that and have her feet are straighter. I’ve had some people come back from their podiatrist and I go to say, ‘What the hell have you been doing? What have you been doing? Keep doing it. Because your toes are straightening, and your foot in better condition’. Lisa: So you can sometimes avoid surgery. Wow, that's pretty amazing. That's pretty amazing. Dave: Well, and even if you have surgery, if you don't do the follow up, you're gonna end up having it again. It’s a huge amount of work with a huge amount of things you can do to help out your bunions. Lisa: Okay, that's really good because I have—got a very neglected bunion. I've always like, ‘Oh, it’s not causing me major troubles yet’. You know? Now I'm thinking, ‘Shoot. I need to address it’, because it's getting, like, Neil noticed that last time I was with him, it's getting worse. And I'm, ‘Oh, this is it? I thought it was the same old, same old’. Neil exclaimed no. And I've got troubles with piriformis. And I'm like, ‘I've been looking at piriformis trying in working on that’. And that could be, could be, could be, might not be, could be a knock on the feet there. Dave: So thinking about how that could relay. If you've got that bunion here, and your foot’s falling into pronation and it’ll take the knee with it, and it will take that whole hip and will rotate in and everything will rotate in there. What stops it? Well piriformis can stop that. So if piriformis is having to make up for a foot function issue there, well, that's worth working.  If you release piriformis, and get that guy—well, now you've got nothing holding your foot together. So where's that guy next to the public often deal on the spine? That's probably where we're going next. And then it could be somewhere else too, or it could travel to the knee. Lisa: Yes.  Dave: So, you know, we talked before about finding the source. Fixing the foot would be a really useful one. And if you're still on your feet, a fair amount, which knowing who you are, you certainly want that contact with the ground. Lisa: Yes. Yes. Yes. Dave: Sort it out. Lisa: Like paying attention to the little changes that are happening in your body because sometimes you think, ‘Oh, no, you know, it's all the same’. And then you don't see changes in your own body when you don't, when you see yourself every day, or your loved ones. Or sometimes you just like got your own little blind spots. Okay, so if we can dig that video out, we'll put that in the show notes for sure.  Let's talk about plantar fasciitis because this is a major problem. One of the most common running problems, especially the people who have up the distance very quickly or done some things here, what is plantar fasciitis and what can we do to deal with it one? Dave: So the left part of fascia is a layer of fat or connective tissue that goes right along the bottom of the foot. And as I mentioned before, that has a lot of receptors on it. So it's very rich in receptors, though can get extremely painful. And typically people who have plantar fascia issues will get out of bed and they'll try to put their foot down, and take a snack, or walk, and start walking, and the whole bottom their foot will be locked up. It'll take a while for that to loosen up so they can use that foot.  More often, you'll get that around the front of the heel, so none of them pointed the heel back in towards the centre of the foot. And sometimes that'll run up in bands as well. Now, the change in volume too quickly is your number one culprit which you mentioned. And that centre area. But certainly some foot mechanics can also have an issue there as well. So the plantar fascia is—in your foot, you've got well, definition you got 50 muscles that run below their knee—all could help control that foot. Your plantar fascia is there, it winds up, and plucky when you bend your big toe. It helps wind up that panic factor to help make the foot rigid to make it to leave so you can push off it.  That's one of the—there’s sort of two main functions of a foot. The first one is to allow the foot to splat is my technical term. Hits the ground and conforms to the surface that it goes to, number one function. Second one is it becomes a rigid lever so you can repel off it. Well, that's pretty much what a foot does. If you have kind of with a narrow down.  So we've got an issue there with that timing between backing and becoming a rigid lever. And the plantar fascia is wearing it somewhere there. Now there's—we can look at the plantar fascia, and you can try and treat the plantar fascia. But there's a lot of layers of muscles and a lot of timing that happened before that plantar fascia that’s been beaten up. So there's something gone wrong with the timing of how you're going from flat to rigid lever that's causing that.  And particularly if you overload into that. So if you've increased your volume too much, that's often the last well, kilometre, or 1000 footsteps that broke the camel's back. So I want to look at what's happening with the ankle and the foot, and I'm always interested in the big toe when it comes to plantar fascia. Lisa: Right, so that's your big lever. Point, really big toes when you push off and you get that elasticity sort of wound up. Dave: Massively important part that big toes. The amount of bones you have in that big toe, and for those of you with bunions, or pinchy injuries in that big toe joint as well. That's a really important one to get looked at. That can have a massive effect on everything up the chain.  Lisa: Wow. Yes. And what can you do about it? Are there some exercises that you recommend? Like, you might have fascia release, you make your ball rolling, that type of thing for the actual plantar fasciitis itself, the stretching and icing, and all that jazz? Dave: Icing can be nice, and that takes some of the pain away because it’s very painful. Having some light pressure in those areas too can help hydrate the tissues and get them healthier again. Because during—if you have some sore spots in their plantar fascia, often they won't have the hydration and the movement, because it's still layers and layers of tissue. Now, if you can get those moving better and hydrated, that will heal better.  Adding some load to it can be useful too, you just need to be careful where you are in their injury spectrum. But it actually does require some loading because the loading will help actually line up the fibres and get that strong again. But it needs to be the right type of loading starting slowly and building up. That sort of mechanics. In big toe, you'd be wanting to have a look at and also what's happening with the ankle. Check that you've got enough dorsiflexion to get into more. How much can you bring your ankle? If you've got a restriction on the ankle and a restricted big toe, your plantar fascia—well, everything in the foot but the plantar fascia, may end up wearing that one. Lisa: Yes, yes. And there's a couple of tricks to do with the dorsiflexion that I can link to another video there that Neil's done. Where you can push that—I’ve forgotten it—talus bone. Where you pushing it back into—because sometimes there’s some sort of a line. Yes, this one,  this one. Trying to find the words. Dave: Restoring their ankle dorsiflexion will be critical. I think that the foot and ankle, I'll look at three main zones in the body. In terms of my model for looking at movement. If you get the torso moving really well, that's very important for rotation. If you're running, you get the pelvis and hips moving really well, that would be my second zone. And the third zone would be the foot and ankle. So if you can get those three zones working well, normally I take 85% of the movement issues will just disappear. Right? And so the foot and ankle are a huge player in my model, and certainly one that I see having a very big impact on how people move well or done don’t move well. Lisa: Yes. Now, that's really good. So the torso, the pelvis, and the feet. So working on those areas in trying to get things balanced.  Dave: Yes, well, the big thing on that that's where I missed them.  Lisa: And those are the three areas—the key areas—and obviously it's the score a lot of work Dave but yes. It's everything from drills and exercises and it's what we do, what you do.  Let's look at now, for runners, talking about running shoes, and buying running shoes, and picking a shoe that's good for you and what you're doing. You were showing me some running shoes before and for people on the podcast, you can't see, but says Kipchoge ones, what do you call them? What are those shoes? Dave: So these are Nike's Zoom Fly shoes. So for those of you who are listening to this, rather than watching it, so this is the shoe that Kipchoge wore to get his sub-2-hour marathon. And they have fibre placement, which have an awful lot of recoil. And also, it is over four centimeters of foam here, but the foam has incredible amount of recoil.  Lisa: Wow.  Dave: So the theory is these will take 4% of your running time.  Lisa: Wow, that’s messed up.  Dave: There’s actually a spreadsheet, which I got hold up to. We can actually look at your running times and calculate how much of a difference it would make to your running performance. And yes, I mean, who wouldn't pay for 4%?  Lisa: Yes. Dave: Mostly runners, my straight line runners, will compete in these. And you'd be a magnet to, if you want to run fast on straight lines. These are extremely high and extremely unstable. If you wouldn’t run on trail with these, no way.  Lisa: Like the HokaOnes, you know, like really deep into the thing that a big sole...  Dave: No, these are high. And they're incredible amount of recoil. They do push you very much, your forefoot style. So what I’ve noticed for days, I totally didn't want to like these. Lisa: Cause you want more people to go bare feet. Dave: I ran in them last week. This is ridiculous.  Lisa: Ridiculously good.  Dave: The speed and ease is something else. And certainly most of my runners who run straight liner, competing in these and certainly in the meantime and now, unless athletes have sponsors, those are the shoes they are picking up. And why wouldn't you if you can—I mean getting 4% improvement in performance is there's something else, even with training. If you can get that by paying for it, why wouldn't you? Lisa: So basically, it's elasticity that they're using. It’s the spring, it's the coil, it's the ability to bounce you off the ground, it's like being on a trampoline. So you're gonna get more force.  Dave: Right.  Lisa: Taking your foot. Dave: Well, yes. The energy is returned a lot more efficiently. So you'll notice that there's a whole host of track records been broken lately, and then closed the marathon. And yes, the technology had a big part in playing it. I think that the next Olympics, the shoe feature extremely heavy. And a lot of a lot of other manufacturers are using this technology now. And they have a lot stricter with the technology they can use in those events now. So there's the level playing field.  Lisa: If you want to level the playing field, it's a thing—if we start having an unlevel playing field, and that's where it becomes a bit problematic.  Dave: And they're recouping broken now. And there'll be more broken with this sort of new technology coming through. Lisa: And from a foot health perspective, are they okay, in that respect, or you just didn't want to like them?  Dave: No, it's not about—it’s sports. Sports is not about health. Lisa: Performance is not about health. No Dave: No. Lisa: It should be but it depends… It’s not always the case. Dave: That's the point, though. I mean, if you wear these around all throughout the day, why would you do that? And having four centimeters of foam between you and the ground can  be put to sleep. So look, I would—if I'm wanting to do a fast run and I don't really do much of that anymore—but if I was doing a faster training run with them, with a buddy of mine who runs pretty quick, I would definitely wear these.  I'm walking all day barefoot. I'm doing full exercises throughout my day. I'm waking up my feet all the time to look after my feet in-between. So you know, this foot choice, shoe choice doesn't stand finished when you're running. It's throughout the day. And that way, you'll choose a different type of shoe. If I was wearing a shoe during the day, my normal shoe would be something that's very minimal, which allows my foot to feel the ground and do things, if I need to wear footwear. Lisa: Yes. And sometimes you don't, you know?  Dave: Yes. And I think that's an important thing too. We've always—there's always extremes. Yes. So I'll see the odd person is taken to the extreme, and they'll go barefoot all the time. And I think you need to be careful of that too. So from a health point of view, yes. So where I live, you wouldn't run—I have run some trails barefoot but there are sharp rocks around there. But also we have snakes there which is a bit of a problem. So I've done the odd barefoot run, but it makes you pretty nervous. The other part too, is what goes on your skin, goes in you. Lisa: Yes, me too. You talked about that on—what was it on? Something you were talking about the other day. You were talking the skin and your feet.  When your lectures that I was learning from you, right? And you were saying how your daughter was barefoot, which was great, but you went to get some picture with the car.  Dave: Yes.  Lisa: And she wanted to run across the full court bare feet and you said, ‘No, put your shoes on’. Dave: Yes. Gotta have shoes. If you go into public toilets, or you're going on a forecourt of a petrol station, if you're walking barefoot on those, those chemicals are getting into your thing.  Lisa: Yes. So also, if you're walking barefoot too, and certainly in Asia and I have an Asian background, you bringing into your house when you go in there too. So be careful where you expose your feet to, because it will go in you, and then we'll take it into your house. Lisa: Yes. Dave: So yes, there's time and place for everything. Lisa: Yes, yes, that's so true. And this is where some other minimalist shoes come in. So and like, social etiquette and stuff, you don't—you can't go to the gym without some sort of footwear on. Most places will tell you off. Well, gym maybe. Dave: My gym, we actually have a gym shoes off policy, right? If we want people to move well, we need all the sensors working well. So we want as much information from those shoes from those feet as possible. So people understand where they are on the ground. Then we have covered where people put their shoes in.  And now not everyone is trying to barefoot. And we have some people who have some structural foot issues who do require some footwear, as well tend to move well. So, if you drop a dumbbell on your foot, having a shoe isn't really going to help you. But as one of my main etiquette contains the meat. Lisa: And most gyms prescribe that you have to have shoes on when you go to them. They do. And these social situations, you can't go to the opera with bare feet. It's not cool. And that brings me to ladies in high heels. What are we doing to our bodies when we wear… Dave: Oh boy. Lisa: …lovely, elegant? We look very elegant in high heels. What the hell are we doing to ourselves? Dave: Okay, so yes, you mentioned that word kinetic chain before. And the idea there is when you change one part, it will change something else with. That's what a kinetic chain does. Okay, a closed kinetic chain. So when you add an incline to your heel, and lift yourself up there, that pushes you forward. So if you have a stiletto on or something very high, you’ll fall on your face unless you adjusted. So where will you adjust? You'll normally do that by pushing your pose forward, by arching your lower back more. So often, the problem that you'll see with high heels will be it changes up the chain.  As well as that when you're in high heels, you're effectively pointing your toes. So if you're in a flat shoe, you'd have been in your ankles. In a high heel, your toes are pointed more. So what that does is that will shorten the calf muscles. And that’s why, if you look at a woman in high heels, she has more definition in the calves because those calf muscles are shortened up. But if you're wearing high heels an awful lot there, what that will do is shorten up that calf, it may make it harder for you to bend that ankle again, which will cause you some different issues, and for those of you who are a bit more technical minded too, peroneus longus, okay, will be one of the muscles which is a part of the action which will be shortened. The peroneus longus comes around a riff underneath the foot and a wrench into the base of that big toe. So it pulls you down into pronation so it collapses the arch. So if you've been wearing high heels an awful lot, that peroneus longus can shorten, which can end up reducing your amount of bend in your ankle and also will pull you into more pronation. Apparently, the good thing that allows you to splat, but remember we also want to make the foot rigid after that so it can repel often.  But if you end up mucking around with muscles, and changing the way they work, and certainly by placing a high heel, and you're certainly going to do that, that will do that. And it will change the way the peroneus longus works and wears out the muscles, which will change that timing, that intricate timing that we need to have in the foot. Lisa: Wow. And so ladies, keep your high heels for special occasions and not everyday use if you can. And I mean I—working with mum and she was in the bed for a long time, bedridden. Drop foot, you know, same thing basically. But just on a horizontal because she couldn't stand so she couldn't get that dorsiflexion happening, and then I was not aware of it at the time that this was a problem when it was happening, and I caught it quite late. And then we had to have her in a boot to try and straighten that out and now she's got a rigid ankle pretty much. So she's got no dorsiflexion, therefore she can't roll over the front of your foot and off nicely. So her whole gait is more flat footed. And these things knock on very early. And then it happens quite quickly that you start to get dropped foot.  Even if you think about life, wake up in the morning and that first time the foot hits the floor, and you've got like, ‘Oh yes, stuff. Stuff on the calf muscles feeling scuffles within the Achilles. And this is a—getting onto the Achilles toe’. If you're getting that initial stiffness when you get up in the morning, there's something brewing and maybe start to look at it. Achilles is a good—that's a good indicator that so step in the morning. How are you feeling? If you're bouncing out of bed and you can get out of bed and run down the hallway and you find you've got nothing, then you probably, not too bad. Dave: I think that's a great point here. You should wake up feeling reasonably good. I mean it’s not a margarine commercial. You shouldn't jump out of bed, ‘Hey. Hello world’. That's probably the only thing you'd be happy about if you're eating that stuff. But that's a whole other conversation.  I had a professional athlete who I was working with, and we were talking one morning and was actually helping, deciding—standing up, deciding we were gonna go with him. And he said, ‘Yes. So how things young is young? What’s your story? I didn't have a car stand up. And then I go, ‘Sharon district’. About 40 minutes later, I'm ready to move. That's normal, right? ‘No, no, that's not normal. Your body normal is not being in pain and struggling to move. That's not normal..  Lisa: Oh but it's age, Dave. That's the next thing, he’ll tell you. It’s just normal aging. Dave: So now I think too, you know. Let’s you've got a—sorry for those of you who are in different hemispheres. But a classic car in the southern hemisphere was a Ford Cortina. Now imagine you've got a 1984 Cortina in your garage, and it's chrome. It's beautiful. And you've looked after it wonderfully. That car drives fantastically in your own town, you think this is the best car ever. But if you take a 1980 Ford Cortina, and you don't maintain it, and you just drive it hard, you won't have it here today.  Lisa: Yes.  Dave: Okay. So if you've got a classic car, it can run really well. But you need to put some extra care and maintenance into it.  Lisa: Absolutely. Dave: That's all it is. So, but you can have a young—you can have a new sports car. You can trash it's probably gonna be a little bit better. But yes, so the older you are, the more keen you’re taking care of your classic car. Lisa: We fit into the classic category now.  Dave: That's another spin on that too. You know, ages is one thing.  But I kind of look at these young athletes, I think you're—you can you can keep up with me. You haven't got the experience I've got. Play that card. It's not there's not just physical is a lot more that goes on to it. And take a look at the outer world. And know that certainly, the more of a mental game that's required, the better it suits your experience.  Lisa: Yes, in Roman times, like, it's not about speed and power after a 100k, it sort of starts to come down to… Dave: Yes. Lisa: So yes, it is. It's an attitude for life. There's a number of rounds on the clock, but it's keeping everything as best as you can in optimal performance and stopping things before they fall down the cliff, and being in that preventative space. And that's what we're both all about. And that's why you’re taking good care of your joints, and your muscles, and your hydration, and all of those exercises is really, really key. Let's talk a little bit now around, what's your take, I'd like to hear just on general and for joints and cartilage and stuff? Things like sulfur, MSM, conjugated salt, and so Glucosamine, that sort of supplementation for cartilage and joints you know anything about this? If it’s a cool thing or not? Dave: It's really cool at one of my key areas. Look, supplements are strange one. And certainly my take on that really changed over the last few years. And now if you think you can get everything out of your diet, even if you're eating organic, you probably can't. So there's certainly some supplementation useful. I'm very big on getting an evidence base on that though.  So there's this push where we've almost seen our science as lying now. We need to be able to do our supplementation, to what you want to choose. But what I found now is basically you become a victim to marketing now. So there's a fine line between the two. So I read up on what I think is useful, and what's not, and I use it on an individual basis. But I'd like to cover the basics first, and often think that we're thinking they're tasting things like curcumin. Another problem with curcumin by the way, as well some other some other supplements here when you're not even looking at the basics. So do the big rocks first. Lisa: Yes, I'm big on those pretty you know those ABCD. Selenium, zinc, magnesium-type base. Not sexy, but very essential for genetic functions. Yes. Dave: A decent multivitamin is probably a bloody good place to start, and then you can start fine tuning from there. Sure. I take a few other things, as well. I'm a big fan of a decent probiotic, and veering those probiotics around. I think that's really important. And I use that as a food source as a supplement. I do like my fish oils. I think there is a part to play in that.  Lisa: Yes. Those are wild. Dave: Wild, wild, wild small fish is the way you want to go and watch out for the processing on those as well, they can get... Lisa: Very very important to get the right fish source, you get right fish source ,and you'll be doing the opposite to what you need to kick the company out especially... In our next conversation. I know we're getting a bit off topic but probiotics, I've done quite a lot of study around the probiotics, and some of the problems of probiotics, and has domains, and causing inflammation and allergic reactions. Have you found any one in particular that you'd say, ‘Yes, that one's been really good for a lot of people’. This got a good clinical base to it? Dave: Yes. There's a few brands that I tend to like. These… Lisa: Deep in here without any proof on that question, but I was interested for myself because I'm looking at our probiotics. Dave: Syntol is a brand I quite like. Syntol, S-Y-N-T-O-L iis a brand that I've used for probably the last decade. That's an industrial strength one which works really well. Also Bio-Heal is another one, which I think is a pretty decent one. And the reason I like those brands is that they don't need refrigeration. And the Syntol is more spore one so it can be a bit bitter as well. Lisa: Yes. Because it's got to get through the digestive, the stomach, the action, into the lower. And I know like the science in this area is still a very much an evolving space. And a lot of this, I have had a couple of clients been on probiotics that you get out of off the shelf or supermarket type thing. They ended up with histamine reactions and things like that because they do have often—so if you're sensitive to histamine and you might want to check it out a little bit more, and just be toe in the water and find out. So it's a little bit hard to know because I think the jury's still out in some regards. But I think but the spore based ones… Dave: Yes, there seems to be built in there. I feel like most fermented foods, they won't suit everyone, for sure. They served me really well. So I make my own kimchi. I make my kombucha. I make my own sauerkraut. Do some water kefir as well. I often use a little bit of fermented foods to help my gut work. And every culture and everywhere in the world has some form of fermented food. And we realize as developing communities that we need to look after our gut health needs, and we didn't have refrigeration was probably the other thing as well. Then those are very health giving. And it still exists in most cultures today, and it's certainly something that I'd recommend if it suits you to work into your diet. Lisa: Yes, and that is where I know—working with the PH-316 epigenetics programme that we do that there are certain biotypes. And one of them that can miss to watch the amount of fermented foods because it can again—cause histamine problems in inflammation in the body—so that is a bit of a bit more a personal genetic thing too, as rather than across the board.  But to be fair, I think that's everything needs to be personalized nowadays. And we've got a lot I wouldn't say we've got an all sass but there is a lot of science around what type of thing for what person and which genes, for which foods, and I don't think it's by any means perfect yet. The science behind it, but we can get a bit of an idea on some of these things. So just because it's healthy for Dave doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be healthy for Lisa, you know? So a little bit of experiment, and I'm a big experimenter, versus showing one of my athletes into my pantry. And it looks more like a cumulus isn't well supplement shop rather than a...  And I don't take on things all the time but I'm always experimenting on my own body, and trying to optimize, and to see what sort of things are having which effect and then trying to take note of it, and keep track of it, and trying to work out. A little bit hard when you keep chucking 100 variations at things. It's not exactly a clinical study where you do one variation. But… Dave: Eating is one.  Lisa: Eating is one. Yes, exactly. And keeping testing. But back to the whole foot scenario talking that—I mean, you and I can end up in bloody all sorts of areas. What's your take on orthotics? I wanted to ask that again. Jury's out of my mind on orthotics and I'm not sure. Dave: That’s a real polarizing one. I'm gonna make myself unpopular with some people here, but here's my take on it. I'm not—I'm not a [51:17 unintelligible]. If you have a foot that hasn't got a structural issue, or a neurological deficit, you can work without orthotics. Okay, so orthotics add support, and they will normally block motion. Okay, that's what they're pretty much designed to do.  So normally, when they describe orthotics, they'll look at, ‘Okay, there's too much motion. We will block that motion so that the foot can do its thing’. You block motion, some way though. What we know is that motion will be taken up somewhere else. And in that closed chain, where that motion goes will often have problems.  So let's have a look, if you've got a foot that doesn't dorsiflex well, so the ankle doesn't bend well. Now what will happen is the only way you can bend their ankle now is to roll inside or to over pronate. That's the only way you can go there. But rather than go through the foot, you go around the foot now. So what may happen is, if you have no thoughts to stop that pronation, go, ‘What's happened now’? Okay? Now you can't pronate the foot, you can't work at the ankle, what's going to go next? You may end up taking up a knee. But now you'll end up with a knee issue, when you may come in with a foot issue. You may end up with a knee issue, or it may end up going into the hip or the lumbar spine, or as far as into the neck, which is a common thing or even to the head.  I've seen from people who've had a foot issue and they get hit out when they start hitting the pavement because it goes right through the chain. And that's it ends up tearing them up. So when you enter [52:53 unintelligible], if you've got a painful foot, it can be very useful temporarily to change what's going on, or a structure or neurological deficit. Otherwise, think of a crutch.  Okay, if I break my leg, ‘Oh, I want to break around my knee without smashing my knee to smithereens. I want to break around my knee and I want to wear crutches to start with’.  Now, oh boy that feels so good having extra support in there. And I've restricted that range around my knee because it's too painful to move. But 10 years later, I wouldn't want to be still be wearing that same brace on my knee with a crutch. And I wouldn't want to go in there each year and get that brace changed a little bit and realtered. So I look at some of your thoughts that come into me and I look at that foot and I look at your foot and I go, ‘I have no idea’. I kind of—foot mechanics is tricky stuff. But I've put a fair bit of work into it. Like I understand how feet generally work, I think. I look at that foot and I look at that person, and I think, ‘I can’t see what’s that relating to at all’. I don’t know what you’re seeing, but that's not what I see.  And there’s a few things around some of the theory of orthotics which are a little bit tricky around foot mechanics change when you have your foot on the ground versus when you—whether your foot in the air.  Lisa: Of course.  Dave: A lot of the mechanics that are put into orthotics aren't done in a closed chain, which changes the whole way the foot works. Though, there is some stuff there. I've had piles of orthotics thrown away over the year. I have products come into me and I go, ‘What?’ And I'll test them. It'll take people with them, without them, and they'll go better without them. I had some people that do need them though, because they had some neurological issues for their head structural foot issues, where their foot is broken beyond repair, where it does need some help.  And making good orthotics, definitely—for those of you who maybe have a diabetic foot or have had some issues around there. Some of the orthotics I've seen that have come and have been worked about and are amazing, though there is some there are some amazing work on orthotics. And that's probably my outtake on this one. So finding someone who's very good at that, and looking after a foot in trouble is a real skill. Lisa: It is. I've got a friend, Lisa Whiteman, who owns a China podiatry clinics, right, throughout New Zealand, and their stuff is next level. But the science and technology that they have in order to get the right things for that. So if you're thinking of doing it, make sure you go to somebody who really knows this stuff, and not just any sort of orthotic. And test it, and try it, and see whether you're getting something through up the train, fix that. And question with the immediate, long term—I've never had any benefit out of an orthotic. And I've only got, again, one anecdotal in me.  But we're not—like dealing with someone like my mum with a neurological problem, and limited dorsiflexion. I am considering the next opportunity I get to take down to Wellington to go and see my friend and go into her clinic and get her an assist, that might be, for example, a situation where something like that could be called for, because she's lost that motion and the ankle, so we haven't got it to work with. Dave: So we do have problems from the bottom up. So the foot can cause a problem going up, but also it can probably be going

Hyundai was founded 53 years ago in Seoul, South Korea. Its first product was the Ford Cortina. Today, the Hyundai Group is the 4th largest vehicle manufacturer of the planet, behind only Toyota, Volkswagen and the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance. How has Hyundai found a way to compete and win against much larger rivals, like Ford and GM? How has the company learned to build such high quality vehicles after early stumbles? And where does the company's new Chairman, Eui-sun Chung, plan to take the company from here? #WinningInAsia / #ZozoGo https://twitter.com/Dunne_ZoZoGohttps://www.instagram.com/zo.zo.go/?hl=enhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-dunne-a696901a/

43 episodes in and we finally chat to someone from contract catering, although today's guest has done far more than that. We speak to hospitality legend Simon Esner, Founder at Executive business mentoring Uncommon Sense (www.finduncommonsense.com). Simon is also still involved with Baxter Storey (https://baxterstorey.com (https://baxterstorey.com)) and WSH Ltd (https://www.wshlimited.com (https://www.wshlimited.com)) working with some world leading chefs and concepts. Simon has had an Epic career and life so far and has achieved so much, with much still to do. We only just scratch the surface of his story bank but nevertheless we chat about maintaining positivity, keeping the glass half full, family, mentors, electrics, food scene development, getting your break, pay rises, skiing, paper job adverts, Ford Cortina's and of course his epic journey so far. Simon carries so much positivity and humour, it's infectious. Thanks so much Simon. Enjoy Show Transcription SPEAKERS Phil Street, Simon Esner Phil Street 00:01 Welcome to hospitality meets with me Phil street where we take a light hearted look into the stories and individuals that make up the wonderful world of hospitality. Today's guest is Simon Esner Founder at uncommon sense, and all round hospitality legend. Coming up on today's show... Simon talks about the first time that he met Phil... Simon Esner 00:22 But when I got home, I said to my wife, I said this guy's a nutter Phil shows a unique command of the English language.... Phil Street 00:29 Yeah, you keep upgrading your life, it seems from a position of upgrade. And Simon gives us an exclusive on a new food and drink concept. He's been working on... Simon Esner 00:38 The dish of the day was a cup of tea, and a special was toast. Phil Street 00:42 All that and so much more as Simon talks us through his epic career journey to date. Simon really has built a life and career around having a positive mental attitude. And is proof as to what you can achieve when you keep believing, and when you surround yourself with extraordinary people. Nice work, Simon. Don't forget, we launch a brand new episode each week telling the amazing and always amusing stories from hospitality. So make sure you hit that subscribe button and give us a like and share across your networks. Let's share these stories as far as we can. Enjoy. Hello, and welcome to another edition of hospitality meets with me Your host Phil Street. It's not everyday you get to chat to someone who on the face of it seems to have touched the lives of quite a number of people in this industry. But today, we get to do just that, with some marquee brands and his background, including Baxter Storey, WSH limited, which is the parent company for many a familiar brand, but now also the founder of Uncommon Sense, which I'm sure we'll talk about in a lot more detail later on. I'm also delighted to have been on the receiving end of some mentoring from this chap. So I'm absolutely thrilled to welcome to the show, Simon Esner. Simon Esner 01:50 Well, good afternoon to you. And obviously, Phil, you've arranged the great weather, which is fantastic, because here we are in the middle of September the 14th, glorious, beautiful sunshine. And I get to sit and chat with you. And just reminisce about some good times, but also talk about the opportunities. So thank you for inviting me. Phil Street 02:12 Oh, my pleasure. And I think actually we've had a couple of chats over the last few months through this wonderful situation that we find ourselves and we probably would have had chats anyway. But on a couple of occasions, we've had the chat you've you've been sat in the sun, but but in Portugal, so I am glad we've got we've brought the sun to you in this country now as well. Simon Esner  02:34 Thank you very much. Yeah. So I've been on a few podcasts and zooms over this COVID period. And you're quite right. In fact, I think you... Support this podcast

On the 12th September 1985, 66 year old Alexander 'Sandy' McClelland had been shopping in Brighouse, West Yorkshire with his stepson Brian and his wife Elizabeth. They returned to Brian and Elizabeth's house at 8:15pm and Sandy drove off to go around the corner to his own home. He returned 5 minutes later with some cigarettes that Brian had left in his car and then left once again. It was a routine evening and Sandy was in high spirits. Why then was Sandy found stabbed in the boot of his Ford Cortina just under a month later? This case is mysterious and the forensic evidence found revealed some strange connections. Important information provided by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNoljvyABBo&feature=youtu.be - Crimewatch reconstruction.https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15582701.alexander-sandy-mcclelland-66-was-found-stabbed-to-death-in-the-boot-of-a-car-in-brighouse-32-years-ago-today/https://www.findmypast.co.uk/If you want to support the show on Patreon here is the link and thank you!https://www.patreon.com/theunseenpodMusic by: www.dl-sounds.com (http://www.dl-sounds.com/)Follow us on social media:Twitter- @theunseenpodFacebook- The Unseen PodcastYoutube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeX9lQupoivDexPioj0b9Fw

Ted and Gus chat about The Simpsons farce, stealing petrol, The Ford Cortina and getting banned from hotels. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/juiceybar/message

#361 The London Classic Car Show Pt1. Gareth loses himself in the classics cars at London’s ExCel including a special display of cars with aero engines such as 1920s land speed record holder Babs and a collection of cars designed by Ian Callum.

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The name Boarded Barn didn't really suit the large Tudor house which more closely resembled a manor than a barn. It sat surrounded on three sides by acres of land. The only neighbours lived on a farm nearby, with a road passing the front of the property. Everything was going to plan. The dogs were running loose while Ann and Christine got to the difficult task of sorting through Ann mother’s belongings. Sometime in the afternoon, their two cars were joined by a third on the gravel driveway. A white Ford Cortina pulled up with three men inside. *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED AS THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ADULT THEMES AND DESCRIPTIONS THAT SOME LISTENERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING *** More information can be found on our website at http://theywalkamonguspodcast.com For early advert free access and other extras visit https://www.patreon.com/TheyWalkAmongUs MUSIC: Reversed Crunch by Daniel BirchBodhi Ambient by Daniel BirchIn Pursuit Of Silence by Daniel BirchThe Shape Of Nothing by Daniel BirchThe Ghost Of Despair Island by Daniel BirchSleep by Daniel BirchMusic sourced from http://freemusicarchive.org - used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ YOU CAN FOLLOW US VIA OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES: Twitter - https://twitter.com/TWAU_Podcast Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theywalkamonguspodcast/ Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1346814312074979/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theywalkamonguspodcast/ Acast - https://www.acast.com/theywalkamongus See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#344 Cum On Feel No Noize. Gareth takes a quiet Lexus IS300H F Sport to a loud Slade gig in Snowdonia, chats to people on the M1 and old pal rock star Mike Peters of The Alarm walks and talks us through the cars he drives now and has owned in the past.

#338 Autonomy, Zog’s Battery and Richard and Gareth’s cars. Is the future really driverless? Why has Zog built a battery? The cars Gareth and Richard have been driving. Sniff Petrol on the Indy 500 and Elon’s girlfriend. Plus new music “We Are Ford”.

#326 Festive Special. Gifts we’d really like. Dave Stebbings’ 6 Degrees of Ford Cortina and Never Mind The Buzzcars. Sniff Petrol on motorsport Xmas. The Contenders For The F1 World Championship 2018 perform (Christmas Rapping) Put Me In The Fastest Car.

Graham talks to Dave, a proud owner of a 1966 Ford Cortina Estate... which has been kept on the road through a few modifications and loads of enthusiasm!

Graham talks to Dave, a proud owner of a 1966 Ford Cortina Estate... which has been kept on the road through a few modifications and loads of enthusiasm!

Ford Cortina

#208 What colour should your car be? This year’s On Speed Summer Holiday Vehicle is The Chrysler Grand Voyager; cool, well engineered or neither? Richard drives 7 quick cars. Plus Sniff Petrol on the Austin Allegro, the colour white and the US economy.

On Saturday Live this week the Reverend Richard Coles and Sian Williams talk to broadcaster and comedian Robin Ince about science, art and rationalism, find out how Martin Spinelli coped with the car crash that killed his wife and nearly killed his young son, explore psychiatrist R.D. Laing's experiment at the Kingsley Hall commune in the 1960's with a patient who spent 4 years there, reunite a former policeman with his former police Ford Cortina, travel with John McCarthy along the Wye Valley- this week from Ross On Wye to Monmouth, revel in the sound of the potter's wheel with Duffy Bocking and share Hugh Masekela's Inheritance Tracks.Produced by Chris Wilson.