Lee Iacocca, auto industry savior, dies at 94

Dennis Cook | AP file photo U.S. President Ronald Reagan, left, meets with auto industry executives, including Ford President Philip Caldwell, center, and Chrysler President Lee Iacocca at a luncheon in the White House Cabinet room in 1981. Iacocca, an auto industry giant, has died at the age of 94 from complications from Parkinson's disease. Lee Iacocca, the automobile industry executive who helped launch the Mustang at Ford and save Chrysler from bankruptcy, and whose cunning, ingenuity and swagger made him one of the most successful salesmen of his generation, died July 2 at his home in the Bel-Air area of Los Angeles. He was 94.

For a vast swath of the American public, Iacocca was the…