Every car my family has ever owned has had the fuel door(or doors in the case of the old 92 F350), on the driver's side......except for the 92 LS400. I can't tell you how frustrating that was having to remember that after driving other vehicles. It's one thing I don't miss.

 

beat me to it,SC400 is on the RT side.I have to reposition the car after i get out , my ls430 is on the LT side

 

As if to add to the confusion, my old IH Travelall SUV had gas fillers on both sides. The main saddle tank's filler was on the left rear hip while the "reserve" tank's was on the right front behind the front wheel. Although giving a total capacity of about 35 gallons, it was a struggle to refuel, meaning you had to turn around to fill the other tank. Not an easy task when you are towing a 5,000# boat.

While it was convenient to drive on the rear tank until the fuel ran out and the engine began to sputter, pulling the **** on the dash to switch tanks (rotating it to change the fuel gauge over to the second tank) quickly restored power. Nifty as that was, when I bought a new Suburban as a tow vehicle, I checked the order form for the optional single 42 gallon tank. Peace restored.

I was lucky. A friend's old XJ6 Jag sedan had two tanks, with fillers on either side. What made it worse was the tanks only held 14 gallons each and that old 4.2 L six was thirsty - so you got to refuel OFTEN.

 

Not if you stopped in the middle of the lane, between the two rows of gas pumps. Just pull the hoses straight out on both sides....and hope that you aren't holding up a biker-gang waiting to refill their Harleys LOL.

BTW, thanks for bringing up that little tidbit of info ...I had forgotten that those old Travelalls had dual tanks (Consumer Reports, at the time, also noted that). Also reminds me of my time in Cessnas and Pipers, where you could switch the wing-tanks back and forth during fuel-use to keep the plane's center of gravity as even as possible. It was more of an issue with the Pipers, which used a separate fuel-booster pump during landings/takeoffs, than with the generally gravity-fed Cessnas.

 

Japanese domestic cars are RHD, so a fuel filler on the left side would be away from traffic.

 

Brother-in-law had a Jag sedan back in the 70's with fuel doors on top of the rear deck both left and right.

But the coolest location was behind the taillight assembly (right-hand, I think) on the old 50's Cadillac, I think. You pushed the circular reflector button to open it.

And, of course, don't forget Clark W. Griswold and the hideous green Truckster with the perpetual squeak. He looked behind the license plate and ripped it off in the process.

 

I had a couple of old Cadillacs, fuel filler was behind the hinged license plate. My uncle's old 1957 Chevy station wagon, fuel filler was behind a chrome door on the driver's side tail fin. Worst place ever for a fuel tank was on some old pickup trucks, directly behind the seat, in the cab. Nevermind that everybody in the 50's/60's/early 70's smoked like a train, when that design was popular.

 

Yep. I've been driving a 400, 430, and 460 the last 12 years of my life. We bought a LX570 (replacing a GX which has fuel door on left) just over 2 years ago and I still pull up to the wrong side of the pump about 50% of the time! I've always wondered why this seems to be the only Lexus model with it on the right side.

 

Thanks. Perhaps I have the interpretation of what Autoweek said incorrect.