2 Kids, On Welfare, Broken Car. What To Do? - profile of manager at General Motors
Instead, other names were batted about in the media, including insiders such as Martin Smith, who runs Adam Opel AG design; and Dave Rand, designer in charge of interiors, quality and brand character; as well as some relatively recent recruits, such as Bryan Nesbitt, who penned Chrysler Group’s PT Cruiser and now is in charge of design for unibody vehicles; and former Renault SA designer Anne Asensio, in charge of advanced vehicles.
“Yeah, it’s frightening, it’s exciting, it’s somewhat emotional…but it is absolutely fantastic!” Welburn adds with a grin.
In between is a long list of cars and trucks he designed or had a hand in, from sexy one-offs such as the 1987 Oldsmobile Aerotech, 1995 Oldsmobile Antares and 2002 AUTOnomy fuel cell vehicle; plus a long succession of production vehicles, from the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme in the 1970s to the Chevrolet SSR.