Lee Iacocca

Iconic hot-rod company Shelby American driving in new directions

Twenty-one-year-old Taylor Dankel darts around a quick corner of the racetrack and buries the throttle. The supercharged, 650-horsepower V-8 in his father's modified 2008 Shelby Mustang GT500KR lets out a guttural roar. It's a scene that would have...

Tags: Automotive Equipment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Marketing, Auto Racing, Vehicles

Pop-psychedelic Americana painter to meet fans at retrospective exhibit

Listen to Peter Max reminisce long enough, and the painter starts to sound like the elder statesman of American pop-art itself, with his sensational tales of grabbing coffee with Paul McCartney (just last month), or shaking hands with presidents Bill...

Tags: Ronald Reagan, Paul McCartney, Fort Lauderdale, Manhattan (New York City), Arts

Detroit Auto Show: Shelby American soups up Ford Focus hatchback

Shelby American Inc. has long been known to turn out fire-breathing autos with powerful turbo-charged engines, but with its diminutive new “pocket rocket,” the car company has changed things up a bit. At the 2013 Detroit Auto show, Shelby...

Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Auto Racing, Foods and Beverages, Soups

2012 year in review: The world didn't end but plenty has changed

For Allentown, Penn State football and President Barack Obama, 2012 was a year of new beginnings. For Jerry Sandusky, certain Catholic priests in Philadelphia and leaders of the Boy Scouts of America, it was the year the past caught up with them....

Tags: Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Boy Scouts of America, Lifestyle and Leisure

Dexter Baker's global legacy will roll on at the T-town velodrome

If you travel to, or meet people from, places like Europe or New Zealand, you may draw blank stares by mentioning, say, Peeps. Similarly, you may be shocked to find that faraway people are ignorant of Billy Joel's song of gloom, Lee Iacocca, the source...

Tags: Track Cycling, Cycling, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Wildlife, Marty Nothstein

Carroll Shelby dies at 89; cult classic car designer

Tags: Ford Motor Co., Sports Illustrated, Henry Ford, Music, Entertainment

Sizing up the new breed of car buyer incentives

Special to the Chicago Tribune

Would you like free insurance with that? If you're buying a GM car in Washington or Oregon these days, you might hear those exact words from your dealer. It's part of a new crop of aggressive incentives that also includes Hyundai's trade-in guarantee...

Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Hyundai, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Jeep, Colorado

Leap of Faith' in 1994 was inspiration for today's Ram

Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Automotive Equipment, Ford, Manufacturing and Engineering, Auto Shows

Car of the Year winners and losers

On Jan. 9, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, the Hyundai Elantra and Land Rover's Range Rover Evoque were voted North American Car and Truck of the Year (NACOTY). Fifty automotive journalists reduced 17 cars and seven trucks to...

Tags: Heart Attack, Pontiac, Chevrolet, Newspaper and Magazine, Lifetime (tv network)

Lehigh vows it's not satisfied with just one NCAA tournament upset

C.J. McCollum was 5-foot-6 and overweight. Not exactly what Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and Tom Izzo are looking for in a prospect. But that's the beauty of sports in general and college basketball in particular. An athlete who doesn't fit the...

Tags: Technology, College Sports, Basketball, Science and Technology, Duke Blue Devils

Green Wheels: High-wattage celebrities are shinier than new cars

Covering the auto industry allows you to be refreshingly celebrity free, unless you could consider people like Lee Iacocca and Bob Lutz (whose Car Guys vs. Bean Counters I'm reading) as celebrities. But I had an unusual encounter last week, when I...

Tags: Adrian Grenier, Ford, Celebrities, Hybrid Vehicles, Fuel-efficient Vehicles

Myspace names Fox executive as head of entertainment