Lee Iacocca, auto industry icon, dies at 94

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Lee Iacocca, star CEO who led Ford, saved Chrysler, has died

Lee Iacocca, the U.S. auto executive and television pitchman whose feel for consumers’ changing tastes helped produce the Ford Mustang and the Chrysler minivan and made him one of the first celebrity CEOs, died Wednesday. He was 94...

 

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Auto industry icon Lee Iacocca is dead at 94

Iacocca led the turnaround of Chrysler and was closely associated with at least three iconic vehicles, including the Ford Mustang, the K-Car, and minivans.

 

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Auto industry icon Lee Iacocca dies at 94 (includes video obituary)

 

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Auto Industry Icon Lee Iacocca Has Died At Age 94

The father of the Ford Mustang died on Tuesday.

 

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Ford was working on a minivan when they fired him, he brought the idea for it to Chrysler, and the rest is history.

I read his autobiography, he was a savvy marketing guy.

 

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Ford was working on a minivan when they fired him, he brought the idea for it to Chrysler, and the rest is history.

I read his autobiography, he was a savvy marketing guy.

He was a smart man. He designed the "K" car so one more could fit on the car hauler, cutting transportation costs.

 

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Chrysler hearse is a fitting final ride for Lee Iacocca

Bloomfield Hills — Hundreds of family members and friends watched Wednesday as Lee Iacocca's casket slid into a Chrysler hearse — a fitting final chariot for the automaker's former CEO.

"It's a tough day," saidJerry Greenwald, former Chrysler Corp. vice chairman, following a funeral service at St. Hugo of the Hills Church. "He was a friend of Frank Sinatra, and Frank Sinatra sang this famous song, 'I Did it My Way.' That was Lee. In doing so, he changed in the best of ways, he changed the lives of thousands, maybe millions."...