what killed mopar is no rear wheel drive cars for years and years
This certainly didn't help.
Lee Iaccoa was hailed as a genius. He is actually far from it. He set the company back a decade or two by selling out to the government.
You must get your knowledge from "fake news" sites. First of all, Iacocca asked for (and received) loan guarantees from the government, essentially a co-signer to private loans. They were paid off early with interest to the government.
Chrysler built FWD cars because that's what both the market and the government (through free-market interference) demanded. The resources didn't exist for a modern RWD platform until the advent of the LH car.
Iacocca had the foresight to purchase Jeep (saving jobs), invest in minivans, approve the DR ('94) trucks, approved the V10 and Viper. He built a billion dollar engineering campus that is still the best in the US, if not earth.
He relied to long on K-platforms and should have made Jerry York CEO. He admits Eaton was a mistake and tried to rectify it. He was the only CEO to leave the company better than he found it since WPC.
Now go get your shinebox.
