Lido Anthony Lee Iacocca (1924 to 2019) was an American author, engineer and executive who developed the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and then revived the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Italian American parents, he studied industrial engineering at Lehigh University and took a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Princeton in 1946. He joined Ford in August 1946, moved into sales and marketing, became vice-president and general manager of the Ford Division in 1960 and was named president of Ford in December 1970. He was president of Chrysler from 1978 to 1991 and chairman and CEO from 1979 until his retirement at the end of 1992, one of the few executives to preside over two of the United States Big Three automakers. He also wrote books including Iacocca: An Autobiography.
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was an American author, engineer, and executive
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was an American author, engineer, and executive
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revived the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s
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developed the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s
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He was president of Chrysler from 1978 to 1991 and chairman and CEO from 1979 until his retirement at the end of 1992.
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