Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"

Former Chrysler CEO and Ford President Lee Iacocca issued the following statement today, perhaps deciding he was able to find a better "Car Czar" than Kenneth Feinberg and it's himself. Whatever may have given him the idea?

Statement by Lee Iacocca, Former Chairman and CEO of Chrysler and Former President of Ford Motor Company, on Auto Industry Loans

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ —

The following statement is from Lee Iacocca, Former Chairman and CEO of Chrysler and Former President of Ford Motor Company:

"Running a multi-billion-dollar automobile company with thousands of employees, retirees, suppliers, dealers and communities counting on you is not for the weak of heart or for the timid or the untried. Especially the untried.

"Having been there, I do not agree with the sentiment now coming out of Congress that the management should be changed as a condition of granting loans to the Detroit automakers. You don't change coaches in the middle of a game, especially when things are so volatile. The industry has been brutalized by a totally unpredictable series of events over which it had little control and that is beating it unmercifully into the ground.

"The companies may not be perfect but the guys who are running them now are the only ones with the experience and the in-depth knowledge and understanding of how the car business really works. They're by far the best shot we have for success. I say give them their marching orders and then let them march. They're the right people to get the job done."

Send an email to Ray Wert, the author of this post, at ray@jalopnik.com.

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