- Former Mercedes designer Bruno Sacco died on the age of 90
- Sacco was liable for the W126 S-Class and R129 SL-Class
- Sacco was inducted into each the Automotive Corridor of Fame and European Automotive Corridor of Fame
Mercedes-Benz has confirmed that Bruno Sacco died on the age of 90 in Sindelfingen, Germany on Sept. 19. Sacco was one of many best-known automotive designers in Mercedes historical past and lead a workforce that penned a few of Mercedes-Benz’s most memorable automobiles.
Sacco was the Chief Designer at Mercedes-Benz from 1975 till his retirement in 1999.
“Bruno Sacco has outlined the form of quite a few icons from Mercedes-Benz. Lots of them are nonetheless seen at the moment in on a regular basis street visitors, or they fascinate as classics of the model,” stated Marcus Breitschwerdt, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Heritage GmbH.
Bruno Sacco by way of Mercedes-Benz
Fashions starting from the W126 S-Class from the Nineteen Eighties, together with the sedans and coupes, and W124 E-Class fashions to the W201 collection of Mercedes affectionately generally known as the 190s have been the work of Sacco. Sacco was additionally the person liable for bringing Mercedes into the trendy age of the Nineties with the SL-Class recognized to fanatics because the R129.
Sacco stated his guiding theme was, “a Mercedes-Benz should at all times appear to be a Mercedes-Benz.”
Earlier than becoming a member of Mercedes-Benz in 1958, Sacco labored at Carrozzeria Ghia SpA, affectionally recognized by many merely as Ghia, in Turin.
Sacco was employed by Mercedes-Benz head of physique testing Karl Wilfert who was constructing a brand new model division. Sacco was the second devoted designer employed for the brand new division. Sacco reported to division head Friedrich Geiger, who he outdated in 1975.
The primary automobile Sacco was liable for was the W123 collection station wagon introduced in 1977. The mannequin marked Mercedes-Benz’s first station wagon.
Sacco claimed a mannequin collection’s identification have to be retained from one mannequin era to the following with the intention to stop a era from showing previous after the introduction of the next era. That precept kicked off the automaker’s evolutionary design part.
In 2006 Sacco was inducted into the Automotive Corridor of Fame in Dearborn Michigan, and in 2007 the European Automotive Corridor of Fame in Geneva.
