Mercedes Names New Chief Designer.

Daimler has appointed Gorden Wagener to become its design chief this summer. Wagener, who joined the company in 1997, now heads the luxury brand’s strategic advanced design unit and its design studios in California and Japan.

He succeeds Peter Pfeiffer who will retire in June after 40 years at the automaker. Pfeiffer has been design chief for the Mercedes-Benz brand since 1999.

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