KING LUFF

SURPRISING AS IT may be, the team that works on MOTOR rarely find ourselves debating each other on who would be the quickest behind the wheel. You’d be forgiven for thinking there’d be plenty of egotistical chest-beating over who is most blessed with God-given driving talent in the office. Nope. In fact the conversation has rarely, if ever, been raised (though we did once debate the outcome of a hypothetical people-mover race at Bathurst). That’s because we all know that no amount of hire karts glory will ever change the undeniable truth that there is only one King of Speed at MOTOR magazine – Warren Luff. No one else even stands a chance.

When discussing the MOTOR family, Luffy is virtually as integral to the magazine’s latter-day spirit as any editor to take charge of the title. He’s been with MOTOR since 2004, making his nearly two decades of antics with us rather remarkable. Editors, publishers, writers, photographers, hell, even entire owners of the business have come and gone like tides of the ocean while Luffy has remained. And he’s as affable as ever.

He’s held plenty of titles in his time but