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" The 2010 Detroit Auto Show is underway, and there is much to be excited about. Allow some experts to give you a tour. (Let me add as Esquire&amp;#039;s two cents that GMC would be insane to shelve the Granite concept, judging by the number of Fits, Cubes, and other micro SUVs that are clogging, or unclogging, city streets these days.) But there is something missing. I speak of the bench seat. Sure, you can occasionally still find one in the aft section of a full-size SUV. And if you are the quartermaster of a police department or taxi fleet, you can order a few dozen Crown Vic Interceptors and get yourself benches up front, as well. But if Joe Sixpack wants Jane to be able to slide over next to him on their next moonlight drive, he can forget it. Or he can buy something made before Miley Cyrus was born. Detroit, change this. I, for one, would gladly forgo dual center-console cupholders if it meant I could splay like Lebowski while cruising down the Jersey Pike. For that matter, I&amp;#039;d kill for a good ol&amp;#039; three-on-the-tree manual shifter, just because, hey, wicked cool. And you know what? I&amp;#039;m not alone: This movement already has an anthem. Sing with me, comrades! Click here for live updates from Detroit courtesy of our friends at Popular Mechanics &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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