The brochure and Mitsubishi website both state the ES doesn't have a leather covered steering wheel or shifter knob. I went and looked at the car at a dealership that had several ES and SE models. The salesman told me that the ES does come with a leather covered steering wheel and shifter knob even though the website and brochure says otherwise. He wasn't just trying to tell me what I wanted to hear since I told him I wouldn't buy a car with any leather in it. He asked his boss and his boss said the same thing. From looking at the steering wheel and shifter knob in the ES and SE, they both appear to be identical. Both of them strike me as plastic rather than real leather. Do some ES models come with steering wheels and shifter knobs that look purely plastic with no stitching?