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STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan — Three-row SUVs are pickups with hatchbacks, so Mrs. Payne and I took my 2024 Lexus TX 500h Direct 4 to Gardner White to complete our month-long search for a big, stuffed sofa chair. Ahead of our chair pickup, we called the GW furniture department to make certain the mega-chair would fit. Salesman: What’s a Lexus TX? Me: It’s like a Chevy Traverse. Salesman: Oh yeah, you should be fine. We measured, he was right. The chair was 25” tall x 38” deep, which fit (sideways) through the rear hatch. The chair’s biggest dimension was width at 52” but the interior easily swal…