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    Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
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    Image of danio3834 danio3834
    12/10/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    Its not in my nature, but if I had to follow one person blindly into, itd have to be Iacocca.


    He is coarse, no BS and definetely not politically correct (appearently being old and white doesn't garner much favor either) but the things hes accomplished could never be attributed to luck or circumstance.


    Do what this man says.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    Wow, he looks like John Gielgud these days. Before he died, I mean.
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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    Chrysler: We've been losing touch with younger buyers.

    GM: Yeah, we have the image of being cars for old white guys.

    Ford: When we're not on fire, we've had a fairly fuddy-duddy image ourselves.


    US Government: We just found the oldest white guy in the world. He'll save you all!

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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    The Pride is Back


    ...now featuring liver spots

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    Image of skloon skloon
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    I'll take him if he gets Snoop Dog appointed Drug Czar, at least they both know something about their respective portfolios
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    12/09/08

    @skloon: COTD.
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    Maybe he should be Car Tsar. Then he can fight back when the Bolsheviks decide to completely nationalize the auto industry. Those Bolsheviks are scary...they even have those weird "Hope" propaganda posters all over the intarwebs...
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    Image of ┤├NICKNICK ┤├NICKNICK
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    "The industry has been brutalized by a totally unpredictable series of events"


    ron paul and all the other austrian economist dinosaurs and 200+ GM Death Watches over at TTAC say otherwise.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    12/09/08

    @┤├NICKNICK: Broken clocks, twice a day, etc.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    White... more white... fucking white...


    *twitch twitch*

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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    At Iaccoca's age, I'll bet Sarah Palin asks to run for the office of Vice Car Czar.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    12/09/08

    @graverobber- My Yugo Nova!: Hey, if she's qualified to be Vice President, she's qualified for anything.


    Sorry, even I couldn't keep from laughing as I typed that.

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    Image of ptmeyer84 ptmeyer84
    12/09/08

    @graverobber- My Yugo Nova!: And bygolly she'd win to dontcha' kno! ;D
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    Image of ptmeyer84 ptmeyer84
    12/09/08

    @ptmeyer84: "too"


    My kingdom for an edit button!

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    12/09/08

    @ptmeyer84: She would've made the same mistake. Grammar's for the Liberal Elite.

    *wink*
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    I'm kind of against the whole Tsar-cum-Czar royal whatchamacallit. I can't put my finger on it, but I am in favor of the title:


    El Presidente' De Todos Los Automibile


    I would like the inevitable congressional hearings on the progress in Detroit to begin with with appropriate gravity. Can you Hear Nancy Pelosi? "El Presidente', could you give us the latest report...?"


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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    Apologies in advance, especially to Dearthair.


    If you had twelve billion dollars
    (If you had twelve billion dollars)
    You'd need this old guy to watch your back
    (micromanage your moves)
    If you had twelve billion dollars
    (If you had twelve billion dollars)
    You'd build some new K-cars
    (like my Reliant automobile)


    If you had twelve billion dollars
    You'd build a cash-rich balance sheet
    If you had twelve billion dollars
    You'd come back to the governmental teat
    If you had twelve billion dollars


    You'd be my bitch.

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    12/09/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: It brings tears to my eyes.


    You can interpret that however you choose.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/09/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: If you want twelve billion dollars

    Don't take a fuckin' plane to DC

    If you want twelve billion dollars

    Just say "This Wrangler works for me"

    If you want twelve billion dollars

    You'll be my biiiiitch...
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    Image of flyingstitch flyingstitch
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    If you can find a better car czar, hire him!


    There, somebody had to say it.

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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    12/09/08

    @flyingstitch: I think i said it in the post.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    12/09/08

    @Ray Wert: I found FIVE.


    And Ray, fine, you get this round, but if Scarlett Johansson expresses an interest, or if you or Murilee get a phone call, I WIN.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    I spend way too much time during the day here, but for great long-format essays, I go to Ate Up With Motor.


    He's got a great history on Iaccoca's time at Ford, as well as the first Chrysler bailout in three parts:

    One

    Two

    Three


    BTW,

    Jalopnik: you should hire that guy.

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    Image of c0de c0de
    12/09/08

    @Mad_Science: self promotion ? :D
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    12/09/08

    @c0de: @c0de: I wish. I don't have time to write like that guy does.


    My crappy seldom updated auto-blog is here:

    [ringandpinion.blogspot.com]

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    Image of huevosrancheros huevosrancheros
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    I am a mopar guy and even I know Chrysler will not be around in a year...Maybe Lee can save GM, I get the feeling Ford will make it.
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    Image of citroën67 citroën67
    12/09/08

    @huevosrancheros: Chrysler will most likely bought out by someone across the pond (i.e. PSA, Renault, etc.) which will bum out the "buy 'merican" douches, but at least it would be better than them just being gone.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    12/09/08

    @citroen67_now with 30% more LHM: Maybe Daimler AG would be interested?
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    Image of pres pres
    12/09/08

    In reply to Is Lee Iacocca Lobbying For The Position Of "Car Czar?"
    Lee is what, 180 years old now?
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