Big Wheel

Lee Iacocca ran Ford and saved Chrysler. Now 82, he’s trying to save America.

…What’s the most important new technology auto buyers don’t know about yet?

Plug-in hybrids. They’re being touted as the wave of the future, and I think they are. I can imagine a scene in the not too distant future when a wife will turn to her husband at bedtime and say, ‘Honey, did you remember to turn off the lights, bring in the cat, and plug in the car?’

How do you think the auto industry can and should face concerns about the environment and rising gas prices?

I have to confess that like many business people