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      07-04-2019, 09:08 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by N54Yankee View Post
Not forgetting He also was CEO and gave the final ok to go forward with the Viper, a pretty bold move at the time and a huge marketing success as well as a terror on the Road/Track. He certainly had the golden touch there for quite some time.
If there was one flaw in his career it could be pointed at development of the Ford Pinto. The Pinto got an undue bad rap for it's fuel tank design flaw (which was corrected). I owned four Pintos over time and thought it was a great car. The number of fuel tank fire deaths in the Pinto were actually less than other Japanese small cars of the same era, the Corolla being one. And statistically the Pinto was no less safe than any other car of the era too. It's just Ralph Nadar got the Corvair shitcanned, so he needed a new vehicle to go after.

But again, Iacocca was leading the American auto industry with the Pinto development rather than lagging behind.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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