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Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca (/ ˌ aɪ. ə ˈ k oʊ k ə / EYE-ə-KOH-kə; October 15, 1924 – July 2, 2019) was an American automobile executive best known for the development of the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and for reviving the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. [1]
Lee Iacocca, the charismatic U.S. auto industry executive who gave America the Ford Mustang and was celebrated for saving Chrysler from going out of business, has died at the age of 94, Fiat ...
Chrysler Corporation CEO Lee Iacocca found Eaton and hired him to be his successor as CEO. This was a controversial decision because Bob Lutz had been Iacocca's expected successor. Iacocca later admitted that Lutz would have been the better choice as his successor. [2] Eaton was the chairman and CEO of Chrysler from 1993 until 1998.
The Shelby-Dodge partnership was born out of the genius of Lee Iacocca, who picked up the reins at Chrysler in the late 1970s, just as the company's financial stagecoach was about to go hurtling ...
Lee Iacocca [10] 1969 1970 President of Automotive North America 10 Lee Iacocca [10] [13] [15] [14] December 10, 1970 July 13, 1978 11 Philip Caldwell [3] [16] October 16, 1978 March 13, 1980 12 Donald Petersen [3] [13] March 13, 1980 February 1, 1985 13 Harold Arthur Poling [5] [13] [11] February 1, 1985 October 13, 1987 Office vacant October ...
In Bel-Air, 'Shahs of Sunset' star Lilly Ghalichi has sold the longtime home of late auto titan Lee Iacocca for $27.7 million.
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Iacocca: An Autobiography is Lee Iacocca's best selling autobiography, co-authored with William Novak and originally published in 1984. Most of the book is taken up with reminiscences of Iacocca's career in the car industry, first with the Ford Motor Company , then the Chrysler Corporation .