The Detroit News has a couple of walkups to the Paris Auto Show, which opens Thursday. Auto critic Scott Burgess bemoans the fact that his penny-pinching editors (aren't they all?) were not swayed by his argument that "Detroit needs Paris ... probably more than Paris needs Detroit," leaving him writing about forthcoming models from the Motor City. His coverage includes pictures of many of the new models. In Neil Winton's "special" to the News from Paris (meaning he was already there, no doubt), he cites a Merrill Lynch analysis that states that new EU fuel economy standards will …