Delayed by a decade because Mercedes diverted engineering resources to the W201 "Baby Benz," the W124 "E-Class" and the M102 new family of downsized, fuel-efficient engines to hit American CAFE fuel-economy and emissions requirements, the SL was the last of the "Sacco-era" cars that defined Mercedes throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. The R129 SL pioneered many, many different new technologies, and became a safety tour-de-force thanks to Bruno Sacco's obsession with safety. It offered the same