Lee Iacocca obituary

US motor industry leader who launched the Ford Mustang and turned around the fortunes of ChryslerAt the height of his career, Lee Iacocca, who has died aged 94, was one of the most powerful and celebrated of US business leaders and, as the son of Italian immigrants, the embodiment of all the possibilities of the great American dream. As the creator of the spectacularly successful 1964 Ford Mustang, he had his first taste of fame aged 39 when both Time magazine and Newsweek put his face – a