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CarChasesFanatic
Both my Mercury and Dodge have the parking brake on the floor like Neptune and Roadmaster described..
I know many other cars do, i always pay attention to those details.
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.
That doesn't change anything, many European cars can get those arms you mention to and they still have the hand brake.
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.
Why on Earth would it get stuck?