Career at Ford[edit] Back then Martial Arts discussions were about technique and style not calling each other names or disrespecting other styles of Martial Arts. My Old School Taekwondo instructor had my ass scrubbing the dojo floor for 6 months when he heard me disrespecting another Martial Art. And that experience shaped the Martial Arts values that I still hold to this day Respect, Honor, Integrity, Honesty and Carry Yourself Like a Gentleman in a competitionNow I see people in dojos throwing their hands in the air when defeating a fellow classmate and yelling yeah baby, get some! while the instructor claps his hands laughing. That shit makes me sick to my stomach. Martial Arts are about learning, discipline and grace not about acting like a fake tough-guy Douchebag in a super tight Tap Out T-shirt arguing on the internet about how MMA is the end-all in Martial Arts training.Besides, in the end my 7 dollar can of pepper spray trumps your 20 years of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training so be a dignified Martial Artist and act like a gentleman, then when you are rolling around on the floor yelling it burns no one will say That super tight Tap Out t-shirt wearing Douchebag deserved to get his ass pepper-sprayedLater, some doubt was cast on the relative severity of the defect.[5] According to reports of the time, the average death rate for the Pinto was similar to that of competitor vehicles of the time.[5]Career at Chrysler[edit]Iacocca was strongly courted by the Chrysler Corporation, at a time when the company appeared to be on the verge of going out of business. At that time, the company was losing millions. This was largely due to recalls of its Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volare, both of which Iacocca later said should never have been built. Iacocca joined Chrysler and began rebuilding the entire company from the ground up, laying off many workers, selling the loss-making Chrysler Europe division to Peugeot, and bringing in many former associates from his former company.Also from Ford, Iacocca brought to Chrysler the "Mini-Max" project, which, in 1983, bore fruit in the highly successful Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager. Henry Ford II had wanted nothing to do with the Mini-Max, a restyled version of the minivan, which Toyota was selling in huge numbers in Asia and Latin America, and his opinion doomed the project at Ford. Hal Sperlich, the driving force behind the Mini-Max at Ford, had been fired a few months before Iacocca. He had been hired by Chrysler, where the two would make automotive history.Iacocca arrived shortly after Chrysler's introduction of the subcompact Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon. Bearing a strong resemblance to the Volkswagen Rabbit, the front-wheel drive Omni and Horizon became instant hits, selling over 300,000 units each in their debut year, showing what was to come for Chrysler. The Omni had been designed alongside the Chrysler Horizon with much input from the Chrysler Europe division of the company (evidenced by many examples having VW/Audi engines), which Iacocca axed in 1978.