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What year did Mercedes stop fitting the foot parking brake to its range of cars?
My husband is well over six feet tall and struggles with small car leg and headroom. He also loathes driving my 2013 Volkswagen Golf because of its electronic handbrake. His car is a 2003 1.9L TDI Polo...
Can I assume that for a car with auto-hold, I do not need to select park or neutral when stationary?
I've had a Nissan Qashqai 1.2 from new for two years. I quite like the car but even after two years I still stall it, usually at an inconvenient moment. Maybe I'm too long in the tooth for the automatic/electric...
I read that it's advisable to disengage electronic handbrakes, on those cars having them, to prevent possible locking of brakes - especially where some cars may not be driven for a number of weeks due...
Is it safe to leave my Honda HR-V (manual) in park on my sloping drive without applying the handbrake?
My camper van won't move. It was parked up after going through a flood and is now stuck. On starting it fires up and both forward and reverse gears can be engaged, but the wheels will only turn one eighth...
We are about to buy a Volkswagen T-Cross DSG which has a manual handbrake. In London we have a lot of traffic lights and historically we have kept the auto in drive and just put the handbrake on. We continued...
My recently purchased Peugeot 3008 comes with an electric parking brake as standard. This is the first car I have owned with this type of brake, and I am struggling to master it. With the car on a level...
Are there any cars on the market which are automatic and have the handbrake on the right?
 

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