Some random minor questions v70

[apersson850]

When you pull them by hand, yes. On these models cars with a manual one has the version where you push down a pedal with your foot to engage, then pull a lever to release. It should be pretty obvious that for Volvo, there was nobody to be compatible with except their own models.
The electric one as it is is the only one that makes sense in this case.

[george57l]

Originally Posted by apersson850

On these models cars with a manual one has the version where you push down a pedal with your foot to engage, then pull a lever to release.

And the vast majority of people (and Volvo drivers these days) have probably never heard of a car with this method, let alone driven one.

Volvo (keen to sell in higher volumes to a wider market) should have replicated what the standard manual 'pull up to engage, push down to release' handbrake did. I've had the dashboard handbrake for a decade and a half and I still cannot lose the muscle memory of the previous four decades of operating a manual handbrake.

Which is lucky, really; I have an automatic.

[apersson850]

In this case you're wrong. The only reasonable action for Volvo at that time was to be compatible with themselves. What would become the most common solution 15 years later is hardly anything they could design around then.

[Clan]

Originally Posted by george57l

And the vast majority of people (and Volvo drivers these days) have probably never heard of a car with this method, let alone driven one.

Volvo (keen to sell in higher volumes to a wider market) should have replicated what the standard manual 'pull up to engage, push down to release' handbrake did. I've had the dashboard handbrake for a decade and a half and I still cannot lose the muscle memory of the previous four decades of operating a manual handbrake.

Which is lucky, really; I have an automatic.

we are talking of the XC90 here , Volvo did design it with a conventional handbrake but it was the American market where a huge number were sold which insisted on the foot parking brake at the last moment of development . some of the the German cars at the time also had a foot operated parking brake.