Cuurently, my daily driver and the wife’s daily driver both fill from the left side. My VW Vanagon camper fills from the right side, and it’s immediately next to the front wheel at that.
Every VW I’ve ever owned filled from the right, all the way back to my Super Beetle Convertible.
My very unreliable memory has the 60’s Toyota 4X4 “Land Cruiser” (or whatever is was called then) with the gas tank under one of the seats.
Edit: If you’re facing forward.
Have there ever been any cars which had the cap located in the hood, or was that just made up for National Lampoon’s Vacation?
My mother’s car when I was a kid had the gas cap behind the rear license plate. I think it was some kind of Mercedes.
As I recall, some of the German rear/mid engine cars (original Beetle, etc.) had the fuel fill up front. But not on the hood itself; I think it was on the fender or bulkhead/cowl.
The Trabant may have had the fuel fill on the hood, but that car had the gas tank sitting right on top of the engine so who knows?
that was common on american cars until the early '80s, AFAIK.
Audi A4 and Volkswagen Passat wagon, both on the right side.
I had a VW that filled from the left- 1966 bug, left side, inside the trunk.
Left on the Accent. Rear left behind the plate on the Wrangler.
In the 60’s my Dad bought a used Beetle that was older than God’s parents. Gas tank under the (front) hood. I’m almost certain you popped the hood and there was the tank with the cap on it.
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Sheesh, could this have been phrased any more ambiguously? When I’m looking at my gas tank, the cap is neither to my right nor left, but in front of me, or what I call the “front” of my car, since it’s in front of me. When I’m actually filling up my tank, I set the cap immediately behind me, so again it’s neither left nor right, but “behind” me. Now if somebody locked me in my trunk and I was trying to pry the door open, the gas cap would be on my left. Unless the person who stole my car had taken the cap off and was walking around with it, in which case I would have no idea where the cap was. Now, if I’m draining the oil in my car, the cap would in fact be above me, and I noticed there was no option for that. Not that putting “driver’s side” and “passenger’s side” would help – what if, for instance, I was taking off my coat while driving, and asked my passenger to steer. Would my passenger then become the driver? Or am I still the driver since I have control of the gas and brakes? Not to mention I sometimes give people rides as if I’m their chauffeur, in which case they might decide to sit behind me. Now the passenger side and driver side are identical, making this whole ordeal exhausting, and I refuse to take any part of it.
Actually, my cap’s on the right. But in my 4 previous cars it’s been the left, which has led me to believe that’s more common, and this poll seems to verify that.
On the right side, dammit. I’m soooooooooooo left-handed~:eek:
Treacherous Cretin, see post 66. The hood of which you speak is the trunk lid since the engine’s in the back.
I wish the car companies would get creative with hidden gas caps again. They used to hide them under side trim, tail fin trim, license plates, and tail lights. Does anybody know of any newer cars with cleverly hidden caps?
2 cars, both behind the license plate… 80’s Monte & Regal
On my Scion and the Chevy pickup, left side. I’m not sure where it is on my husband’s Miata because I don’t drive it - in fact, I’ve only been in it once, and I hated it… but that’s another thread.
the '12 Focus hatch.
Yeah, I know. Considering the “ambiguity” regarding right and left, I didn’t want to further muddy the waters. I guess I should have said “front cover.”
I wish I knew how old Dad’s bug was. It was already very old when he got it in 1964. It had the tiny rear window, split down the middle into two tiner panes; no gas gauge- you drove until you ran out, then flipped a toe lever in the firewall to access one last gallon; the station selector dial on the radio worked backwards- dial clockwise moved the selector to the left.
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Cool- did it have semaphore (flip-out) turn signals?
Drivers side. Works out great because I back into my carport. No way can anyone arsehole siphon gas from me. 
There’s less than a foot between the vehicle and wall. A huge concern when gas was $5 a gallon.
YES! I’d forgotten about those! Pitiful little yellow-orange flip outs, dimly lit for minimum nighttime visibility.
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On the passenger side on my '99 Chevy Malibu LS.
Is running out of gas a common occurrence? I’ve always been advised to never let a car run out of gas, because it’s bad for the fuel injection (but old cars with carburetors, it’s not a big deal).
Anyway, mine’s on the left. The gas station I go to has long hoses that can reach the opposite side of a vehicle, so it doesn’t matter which pump I pull up to.