As part of these luxury systems, the company showcased its new Inspiration seating which converts a typical three-seat second-row seating in a car to two lounge seats.

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Ask any experienced parent, and minivans still takes the cake as the best family vacation car, including the ease of automatic sliding doors, spacious seating and an interior design attuned to the needs of little passengers and frazzled parents.

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In late April, Lear's chief competitor in the seating business, Johnson Controls of Milwaukee, snapped up the Becker Group, another company that manufactures car interiors.

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