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Article: Cherry's legacy: Hits, misses and a battle with bureaucracy; Design vet weathered a period of corporate compromises, retired on a high note.(SUPP)
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- Automotive News
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- September 15, 2008
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Byline: Richard Truett
It would be too easy to sum up Wayne Cherry's 42-year career at General Motors with two words "Pontiac Aztek'' and write him off.
That star-crossed crossover came out during Cherry's reign as vice president of GM's global design and brought to GM a cacophony of ridicule not heard since Ford's Edsel disaster of the late 1950s. But Cherry also was the father of the elegant Cadillac Sixteen, one of the concept cars that helped revive the brand.
The current Chevrolet Malibu, Pontiac Solstice/Saturn Sky and a trio of successful crossovers, the GMC Acadia, Buick Enclave and Saturn Outlook, also took shape when Cherry led ...