Well… I’ve owned a few cars with a center-mounted (console) handbrake between the seats, but that requires bucket seats; a bench seat wouldn’t accommodate it. (Not that bench seats are common outside of pickup trucks anymore anyway.) I’ve owned three vehicles with a hand-operated dash-mounted parking brake: a '62 Buick Skylark, a '68 Ford F250, and a '94 Toyota pickup (Hilux). My '07 RAV-4 has a console parking brake, and my '04 Sienna minivan has a foot-brake (also with foot-release).
The console-mounted handbrakes don’t have to move for right-hand-drive conversion, but I’m curious to know whether right-hand-drive Siennas have their footbrake on the left side of the right footwell or not. I imagine they must.
