the number one selling car in Canada for ages has been the Honda Civic (briefly overtaken by the Toyota Carolla) but the CRV is pretty popular, too.
(for contrast, the number one selling motor vehicle in the US is the Ford F-series, and has been for a bit.)
Um...I know it can be done? Bff has never bothered but BIL bought Sis a back-up camera for her CR-V after an unfortunate incident that I won't repeat here. I'm guessing he installed it.
They are so ubiquitous that it feels sort of off to backup without one. I can only see ONE side of the car! What is this nonsense?
Absolutely! Though I've driven a rental car or two that was missing its driver's manual and it was...challenging. On one of those cars, I couldn't figure out the windshield wipers for the longest time and of course it was pouring down rain the day I picked it up.
This is my "I used to rent a lot of cars" rant.
The US cars all do things one way -- so if you get in an American car, for the most part, the e-brake, wipers, lights, gas cap, hood lift etc -- they will all work the same way.
(I say "the most part because there was one infernal exception: The Mini. I will come back to this.)
Same with the asian cars -- Japan, Korea, whatever: The cars all had the same basic approach to those basic approaches. If you were driving an asian car, it followed its own rules.
So as long as you got an American car or an Asian car, you're fine. And that's great. That's MOST cars.
But then, sometimes, they'd give you a Volkswagen or a Fiat and all hell would break loose because those cars followed zero rules. Volkswagens, particularly Beetles, also had everything be clever. So you'd just be stuck trying to figure out how to open the trunk, KNOWING that it's something cute, but absolutely not something apparent.
(It was pressing the W on the back of the car. This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about.)
Anyway. The Mini kinda fashioned itself as a descendant of European cars, so it also didn't really follow the rules of American cars and would, like, put the window control in the centre of the car instead of on the door where God intended it to be.
To sum up: Driving a lot of rentals and car share cars at least helps you learn where to look for things in cars. Which is helpful. Because no car just doesn't have an e-brake.
