Both my Mercury and Dodge have the parking brake on the floor like Neptune and Roadmaster described. For the Mercury, you would expect that, but it's a little strange for the Dodge to have it there since it was designed to be a hard-core "sports" car. In place of the usual sports car parking brake on the center console is a big leather armrest, which is quite fine with me! Better that than a big lever which can just as easily be made a pedal on the floor without taking up so much space.

I never use the parking brake anyway, the Park position in the trans. can handle it, and I don't want to get the E-brake stuck in the lock postion so I can't move the car. When that happens you have to have a mechanic pry it off, it's a big annoyance, better to avoid it by not using the parking brake.