Bowtie52

I like it right where its at....door opening is not a problem and who cares what they do in Europe.

Corgidog1

I guess there is literally 2 sides to this story.

Aerovette

Put a filler neck on both sides. Symmetry, balance, access, etc.

THE BUD MAN

they put a long hose on the pump so you can stop a reasonable distance away from the it

N2TU

skank

It definitely should be on the driver side. Open the door and take one step to the filler cap. Why would anybody want to walk around to the other side of the car while dragging the hose over the top of the backside. Just pull far enough away from the island so that you can fully open the door. This is a no brainer.

fugly1

I stand corrected, then! Europeans DO drive on the left side.

skank

If England and it's colonies had not converted to right hand drive we wouldn't be having this discussion. The mere fact that England adopted right hand drive because of centuries old jousting fighting and later on sport jousting events created their archaic rational. Approximately 85-90% of the worlds humanity are right handed and therefore slightly stronger on their right side. When riding their horse they naturally held the jousting scabbard in their stronger and more dominate arm to aim more accurately when fighting. And since England continued their jousting battles after the rest of Europe stopped doing it they must have felt an affinity to continue on with that orientation. Pretty stupid logic really.

Actually England and their colonies are the only ones to do it. Not Europe !!

http://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/li...ing-countries/

glfrmrk

I believe the engineers had it right on the C3. Right in the middle of the rear deck behind the removable rear window. I prefer driver side over passenger side on all my Chevys, which they are. Save the wave!

fugly1

I know.

C7 BOB

Don't forget Japan. BTW, my Mazda has the fuel filler on the driver's side.

Drive on the Left:
Australia
Caribbean Islands
Channel Islands
Cyprus
Japan
Hong Kong
India
Isle of Man
Ireland
Jamaica
Kenya
Malta
Malaysia
New Zealand
South Africa
Singapore
Thailand
UK

mnmthoele

I would rather be the one that opens the door near a pole than whomever may be in the passenger seat and wants to get out of the car.
And since the 53's had it on the left, shouldn't tradition mean it has to stay on that side. or maybe put it on top of the back end of the car like C2s through C5s. The previous sentence is complete sarcasm for those that can't always recognize it.

pdiddy972

You're assuming the pump is always on one side, but they're usually on both sides.

mschuyler

Yet with all that government regulation there are still "thieves or worse" in the world. Some people are more comfortable with a Nanny State government telling them what to do, but I would suggest many of these thieves are a part of government and that regulations are as much political as anything. That "regulations protect you" is the excuse of every dictatorship in history. Why can't you pump your own gas in Oregon and New Jersey? Because the government has decided you need protection from yourself because you probably won't know how to do it properly. And with all this regulation there are still plenty of sugar pills on the market. Or haven't you noticed?

vbdenny

I kind of liked when the filler was behind the license plate. You could go on both sides.

CSevenGS

To me this is a non issue. Just park forward or rearward of any pole. Almost every hose will reach like that. Never been an issue. I like having on drivers side, and side as most race cars.

Bill Dearborn

Bill

CSevenGS

Car makers, even Nissan, have cars with right and left side gas fillers. It's about the best packaging on that particular car. It has nothing to do with regulations. US makers have no restriction which side to use. For the idea of putting on both sides, industry says there is neither a general interest in it our room for it. If you're parking where your door can hit a pole, you are doing it wrong.
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pdiddy972

Having to finagle in and out of the car, avoiding damaging it, while parking close enough to actually get the gas in the car, is a PITA. I vote move it to the right side. A car with wide doors like this is the exact wrong vehicle to have the gas on the left side.

streetstylekyle

If you guys all had C4's it'd be the best because the gas cap it in the middle on the deck lid LOL. I see what the point is though, I had a corolla with the gas cap on the left and I still didn't like it.