LJK Setright

LJK Setright

Thinker, aesthete, engineering evangelist, our most celebrated contributor over three decades

One of the most famous sons of CAR magazine, LJK has become a byword for the heyday of CAR magazine.

CAR’s most distinguished contributor elevated automotive journalism to a high literary artform – sprinkling his copy with references to Kipling, Hebrew sages and Virgil, among details of engineering, suspension geometry and tyre compounds.

One column was submitted in Latin, but Setright always imbued his copy with incisive technical too. Favourite car? He raved about Hondas of the 1980s, especially his beloved Prelude.

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