Article: Chrysler Motors Chief to Resign

Harold K. Sperlich, widely regarded as the chief designer of product programs that helped save Chrysler Corp. from bankruptcy, yesterday announced plans to resign as president of Chrysler Motors, the company's automotive division.

Sperlich, a 30-year veteran of the domestic auto industry, said he will remain a member of Chrysler's board of directors.

Sperlich was one of a group of Ford Motor Co. executives who scrapped successful careers at that company in the late 1970s to follow fired Ford President Lee A. Iacocca to Chrysler. Helped by federally backed loans and by Sperlich's K cars, the Reliant and Aries, Iacocca saved the company from ruin and gained fame as Chrysler chairman in ...

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