Well, I'd like to think that the designers figured out which side the steering wheel would be on in whatever their biggest market for that vehicle would be, then put the gas door on the driver's side. When they swapped the steering wheel to the other side for use in other markets, changing the gas door location was an neededless expense.

This way, the gas door location makes perfect sense from a design stand point, and the engineers are exactly right in their thinking.


I'd really, really like to think that...

HUMMER .25: No need to compensate.

1989 Dodge Raider: 3.0/5
1992 Chrysler LeBaron Convertible: 3.0/A
1994 GMC Safari: 4.3/A