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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. ...