Category: Car and Driver

Bruno Sacco, the legendary Mercedes-Benz design chief, died on September 19 at the age of 90.
Sacco believed that Mercedes design must express the brand’s technical excellence and could never be used to mask or make up for a lack thereof. His work excelled not only in restraint and elegance—a representation of the product’s pinnacle positioning—but timelessness.
Check out my essay on his reign, and our slideshow of nine of his greatest Benz designs, and his one unmitigated (self-admitted) flop.

“The electric car is infrastructure-based technology. And the introduction of technology that is infrastructure-based is normally, for whatever reason, speed-wise, overrated, while the depth of usage is normally underrated.”

My latest Stars & Cars story, with Aaron Paul, has so many improbable plot points–a first date, a missing car, stunt driving a Koenigsegg, a Las Vegas residency, being locked in a car trunk in the New Mexico desert, mezcal, caviar, and truffles–that it could be it’s own Aaron Paul movie.

A Preservation Class vehicle won the prestigious Best of Show award for the first time at the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. This is a big fucking deal.

Spot all nine, and win the Gold!

While I was in France last week, I visited the National Motor History Museum, which has a collection of over 400 cars, including 80 Bugattis (!!) and many others that are Bugatti-adjacent.

“We had a more obtuse design phase in the late 1970s and 1980s, and that’s coming back in customer requests, because our commissioning clients are now people that grew up in that era. And this is changing what people are looking for in their collections.”

For its first book, Bring a Trailer chose its favorite 80 cars of the 1980s. See if your favorite is in there.

“I’ve always wanted a Veyron,” Benoit tells me. “But the problem with the Veyron is that the prices have gone up to $2 million now. And even finding a wrecked one is still $1 million.”

When asked about the brand’s plan to discontinue the use of internal-combustion engines, Stroll delivers a flat response. “We have absolutely no plan to do anything of the sort.”