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AutoWeek's Fast Five: Wayne Cherry.(News)(brief interview with General Motors design chief Wayne Cherry)(Interview)
General Motors design chief Wayne Cherry will retire Jan. 1 after a 42-year career at GM, serving the last 11 years as only the fifth head of GM design in the company's 95-year history. As he hands off to 31-year GM veteran Ed Welburn, who assumed the duties Oct. 1, this was Cherry's take on his career and the state of GM design:
AW: What's your favorite-what's the one GM design you'd like to be remembered for?
Cherry: It's got to be the Sixteen-and being able to work on an aspirational car. That's the sort of vehicle that you're really lucky to get to do once in a lifetime. With the other Cadillacs going into production, and then setting up this aspirational Cadillac, that was very rewarding.
AW: And your regrets? Do you regret letting the Pontiac Aztek out the door?
Cherry: (Silence) We've done a lot of good stuff here over the years.
AW: How has design's stature and influence in GM's hierarchy changed during your tenure?
Cherry: I can speak to what's happening right now, and that is that the GM management team is great to work with and is putting enormous ...
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