Auto industry icon Lee Iacocca, once one of America’s highest profile business executives and credited with rescuing Chrysler from near-bankruptcy in the 1980s, has died. He was 94.

Lee Iacocca in 1979. He was the only executive in modern times to preside over the operations of two of the Big Three automakers, Ford and Chrysler.

Lee Iacocca, who created the iconic Ford Mustang and later in his career rescued Chrysler from bankruptcy, has died, his foundation and Ford Motor Company confirmed on Tuesday. He was 94.

Lee Iacocca passed away today at age 94. "You can have brilliant ideas," he wrote in his best-selling Iacocca: An Autobiography, "but if you can't get them across, your brains won't get you anywhere." ...

Lee Iacocca in 1990 with a Dodge Viper. He helped change the image of corporate leaders from gentlemen golfers to obsessive managers who worked hard and partied hard.

Longtime auto executive Lee Iacocca will be buried in Troy, Michigan, on Wednesday following a funeral mass in nearby Bloomfield Hills. When the bulletins began filling up my inbox last week ...

Lee Iacocca, one of the true legends of the auto industry died at 7:30 this morning at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Iacocca was known for many things, but is ...

The tributes to Lee Iacocca, who died a few days ago, have been heartfelt and deserved. During his decades in Detroit, Iacocca fashioned some of the auto industry's proudest moments, from the ...

Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca sits in a 1990 Dodge Viper sports car. Iacocca, who became a folk hero for rescuing the company in the 1980s, died in July at 94. (AP/Osamu Honda) Perspective ...

Lee Iacocca, Chairman of the board of Chrysler Corp., April 1978. (AP Photo) ASSOCIATED PRESS. The late Lee Iacocca, who died at age 94 Tuesday night in Bel Air, California, is remembered by the ...

When I heard on Tuesday night that Lee Iacocca had passed away, I was momentarily taken aback. Not so much because he had died — he was, after all, 94 — but because, for someone who had been ...

LEE IACOCCA wed a 42-year-old restaurateur, DARRIEN EARLE, in a private ceremony Saturday attended by family members and about 100 friends.