The most stylish, but most dodgy-to-use lever thingey I’ve had was in an XJS. Beautifully made and fully chromed it resided between the driver’s seat and the driver’s door. Tricky to remember at first and not grope around in centre console. Most difficult thing was that it was always parallel to floor whether it was on or off. Pull to engage and it drops to floor afterwards. Similarly for release of brake. Thus, very hard to remember whether parking brake is on or off. More than once, embarrassingly at traffic lights, tried to pull away with brake on. Now, 3.6L of straight-six puts a lot of power into rear wheels. Said power is transformed into lots of noise and clouds of smoke with brake applied to wheels at same time!