Wayne Cherry
Automotive Designer
1937 –
Who is Wayne Cherry?
Wayne K. Cherry is an American car designer educated at Art Center College of Design and employed by General Motors from 1962 through 2004, retiring as Vice President of Design. Cherry worked for General Motors in the United States from 1962 until 1965, when he moved to the United Kingdom to take a position with General Motors' Vauxhall Motors subsidiary, becoming Design Director at Vauxhall in 1975. In 1983 General Motors consolidated all European passenger car design under Cherry and made him Design Director at General Motors' Adam Opel AG subsidiary. Cherry returned to the United States in 1991 and in 1992 became General Motors Vice President of Design. Cherry retired from General Motors in 2004.
Cherry was one of twenty-five nominees for the 1999 Car Designer of the Century.
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- Born
- 1937
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Art Center College of Design
- Employment
- General Motors
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on July 23, 2013
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