RIP Lee Iacocca

[Regan MacNeil]

Honestly, I thought he was already dead.

 

[maumann]

Someone at autonews.com didn't update the URL. If you check it, it says "dies-at-xx"

Lee Iacocca, Mustang mastermind and tireless Chrysler savior, dies at 94

EDIT: That's one hell of a long obit. Somebody's had a large file sitting on their desktop for quite a long time, in addition to several siders.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I thought Snoop Dogg killed him.

 

[garrow]

The father of BJ Novak (Ryan from the Office) co-wrote Iacocca's giant best-selling autobiography from the 1980s.

 

[playthrough]

What an icon. Read his books as a teenager and was enthralled, being a kid who loved cars. Alas, my first two cars were a Chrysler and a Dodge and while they looked good and had plenty of room (I could have lived in the trunk of the Chrysler Concorde), they were buckets of crap under the hood.

 

[Azrael]

As good as the Mustang was, those K cars were awful.

Still, what a life.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

As good as the Mustang was, those K cars were awful.

Still, what a life.

19-year-old BYM2 purchased a 1990 Lincoln Continental for $8,000 - a car that will never be renowned for its reliability or durability. Christmas day, 1995, while I was waiting to turn into my grandmother's driveway a teenager in a K-car rear-ended me. She had blowing snow on her hood and didn't see me. While my uncles had to take mallets and bang out her fenders so she could drive home, my car had....a scratch.

 

[CD Boogie]

Chryslers were dog ****.

 

[FileNotFound]

Chryslers were dog ****.

I'm not sure that Chryslers were notably better or worse during the late '70s/early '80s than any other American car. Nobody's singing the praises of the Citations or Granadas of that era either.

Iacocca had plenty of flaws, but what he did for Chrysler was nothing short of a miracle.

 

[poindexter]

He was one of the original corporate giants who were fellated to high heaven.

 

[Azrael]

Iacocca had plenty of flaws, but what he did for Chrysler was nothing short of a miracle.

His greatest achievement was in convincing Jimmy Carter to guarantee that billion dollar loan.

For better and worse, he and Jack Welch were both instrumental in creating the 1980s American cult of the CEO.

 

[poindexter]

For better and worse, he and Jack Welch were both instrumental in creating the 1980s American cult of the CEO.

Today's mediocre, but extremely well compensated CEOs should raise a glass to Iacocca.

 

[Azrael]

Today's mediocre, but extremely well compensated CEOs should raise a glass to Iacocca.

on the nose

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