Why do European cars have the gas tank on the right?

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#1 ixlr8evo8
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It's not very practical... just so you know
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#2 wurn
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... here's another one why are their exhaust pipes also different position than the AMERICAN cars
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oh....ps. SPAMMER
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oh....ps. SPAMMER
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Oh dip
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... here's another one why are their exhaust pipes also different position than the AMERICAN cars
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Are they?
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#6 bob_geldof221
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because we hate American cars?
yes
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#7 nick3333
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Because we're cool like that.
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#8 nickmag
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Because we're cool like that.nick3333
damn straight. at our petrol stations we, and i assume you do to, have pumps on both sides (right and left) so whats the big deal?
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#9 solidgamer
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[QUOTE="nick3333"]Because we're cool like that.nickmag
damn straight. at our petrol stations we, and i assume you do to, have pumps on both sides (right and left) so whats the big deal?

yup
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#10 BrideInDream
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even in indoensia some of the cars gas tank are on the right
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#11 Total-KO
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Because Europeans invented and practically own automotive transport..therefore we're right. Always.
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#12 wurn
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......and here's another thriller, why are european and japanese motocycle gas tanks in the middel ;)
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Because Europeans invented and practically own automotive transport..therefore we're right. Always.Total-KO

very very true :lol:

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yours are to...dosile person.:evil:
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Because Europeans invented and practically own automotive transport..therefore we're right. Always.Total-KO
Right because it wasn't Henry Ford that rolled out with the first automobile, no it was some guy from across the pond. Oh and American cars do have gas tanks on both sides. And the reason we have different exhausts is that we have different pollution controls. So typically our engines are different than yours so we require different exhaust as well.
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[QUOTE="Total-KO"]Because Europeans invented and practically own automotive transport..therefore we're right. Always.mpython99
Right because it wasn't Henry Ford that rolled out with the first automobile, no it was some guy from across the pond. Oh and American cars do have gas tanks on both sides. And the reason we have different exhausts is that we have different pollution controls. So typically our engines are different than yours so we require different exhaust as well.

what? i didnt believe that Henry Ford made the first automobile and wiki says its some german bloke clicky linky
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[QUOTE="wurn"]oh....ps. SPAMMER
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Oh dip

That made me lol.. I don't know why.
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[QUOTE="mpython99"][QUOTE="Total-KO"]Because Europeans invented and practically own automotive transport..therefore we're right. Always.nickmag
Right because it wasn't Henry Ford that rolled out with the first automobile, no it was some guy from across the pond. Oh and American cars do have gas tanks on both sides. And the reason we have different exhausts is that we have different pollution controls. So typically our engines are different than yours so we require different exhaust as well.

what? i didnt believe that Henry Ford made the first automobile and wiki says its some german bloke clicky linky

Steam-powered self propelled vehicles were devised in the late 17th century. A Flemish priest, Ferdinand Verbiest, demonstrated in 1678 a small steam car. The car was made for the Chinese emperor. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot successfully demonstrated such a vehicle on a real scale as early as 1769. Cugnot's invention initially saw little application in his native France, and the center of innovation passed to Great Britain, where Richard Trevithick was running a steam-carriage in 1801. Such vehicles were in vogue for a time, and over the next decades such innovations as hand brakes, multi-speed transmissions, and improved speed and steering were developed
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#19 stevo1000
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American cars can only travel in straight lines.
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[QUOTE="nickmag"][QUOTE="mpython99"][QUOTE="Total-KO"]Because Europeans invented and practically own automotive transport..therefore we're right. Always.Salvy41
Right because it wasn't Henry Ford that rolled out with the first automobile, no it was some guy from across the pond. Oh and American cars do have gas tanks on both sides. And the reason we have different exhausts is that we have different pollution controls. So typically our engines are different than yours so we require different exhaust as well.

what? i didnt believe that Henry Ford made the first automobile and wiki says its some german bloke clicky linky

Steam-powered self propelled vehicles were devised in the late 17th century. A Flemish priest, Ferdinand Verbiest, demonstrated in 1678 a small steam car. The car was made for the Chinese emperor. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot successfully demonstrated such a vehicle on a real scale as early as 1769. Cugnot's invention initially saw little application in his native France, and the center of innovation passed to Great Britain, where Richard Trevithick was running a steam-carriage in 1801. Such vehicles were in vogue for a time, and over the next decades such innovations as hand brakes, multi-speed transmissions, and improved speed and steering were developed

Exactly, I can't belive that the yanks actually think they invented the car.....it's sad

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#21 stevo1000
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Americans think they own everything. Especially Bush.
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#22 comp_atkins
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because thats where the driver's side is
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[QUOTE="Salvy41"][QUOTE="nickmag"][QUOTE="mpython99"][QUOTE="Total-KO"]Because Europeans invented and practically own automotive transport..therefore we're right. Always.jointed

Right because it wasn't Henry Ford that rolled out with the first automobile, no it was some guy from across the pond. Oh and American cars do have gas tanks on both sides. And the reason we have different exhausts is that we have different pollution controls. So typically our engines are different than yours so we require different exhaust as well.

what? i didnt believe that Henry Ford made the first automobile and wiki says its some german bloke clicky linky

Steam-powered self propelled vehicles were devised in the late 17th century. A Flemish priest, Ferdinand Verbiest, demonstrated in 1678 a small steam car. The car was made for the Chinese emperor. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot successfully demonstrated such a vehicle on a real scale as early as 1769. Cugnot's invention initially saw little application in his native France, and the center of innovation passed to Great Britain, where Richard Trevithick was running a steam-carriage in 1801. Such vehicles were in vogue for a time, and over the next decades such innovations as hand brakes, multi-speed transmissions, and improved speed and steering were developed

Exactly, I can't belive that the yanks actually think they invented the car.....it's sad

they didn't invent it.. they just invented how to build it cheaply and efficiently.
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because thats where the driver's side iscomp_atkins
Drivers side is on the left though :? The brits are on the right
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#25 comp_atkins
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[QUOTE="comp_atkins"]because thats where the driver's side is-PureDemon-
Drivers side is on the left though :? The brits are on the right

well, they asked why do european cars have it on the right side? and some european cars have the driver's side on the right...
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#26 nickmag
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[QUOTE="-PureDemon-"][QUOTE="comp_atkins"]because thats where the driver's side iscomp_atkins
Drivers side is on the left though :? The brits are on the right

well, they asked why do european cars have it on the right side? and some european cars have the driver's side on the right...

actually practically every country in europe drives on the right apart from britain. the only places you'll find people driving on the left hand side are britain and former members of the british empire
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#27 comp_atkins
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[QUOTE="comp_atkins"][QUOTE="-PureDemon-"][QUOTE="comp_atkins"]because thats where the driver's side isnickmag
Drivers side is on the left though :? The brits are on the right

well, they asked why do european cars have it on the right side? and some european cars have the driver's side on the right...

actually practically every country in europe drives on the right apart from britain. the only places you'll find people driving on the left hand side are britain and former members of the british empire

well, then the answer would be "because the manufacturers wanted it that way" :wink:
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#28 Mercury88
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What does it matter? petrol/gas pumps are generally on both sides of the petrol/gas station anyway.
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[QUOTE="jointed"]

[QUOTE="Salvy41"][QUOTE="nickmag"][QUOTE="mpython99"][QUOTE="Total-KO"]Because Europeans invented and practically own automotive transport..therefore we're right. Always.comp_atkins

Right because it wasn't Henry Ford that rolled out with the first automobile, no it was some guy from across the pond. Oh and American cars do have gas tanks on both sides. And the reason we have different exhausts is that we have different pollution controls. So typically our engines are different than yours so we require different exhaust as well.

what? i didnt believe that Henry Ford made the first automobile and wiki says its some german bloke clicky linky

Steam-powered self propelled vehicles were devised in the late 17th century. A Flemish priest, Ferdinand Verbiest, demonstrated in 1678 a small steam car. The car was made for the Chinese emperor. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot successfully demonstrated such a vehicle on a real scale as early as 1769. Cugnot's invention initially saw little application in his native France, and the center of innovation passed to Great Britain, where Richard Trevithick was running a steam-carriage in 1801. Such vehicles were in vogue for a time, and over the next decades such innovations as hand brakes, multi-speed transmissions, and improved speed and steering were developed

Exactly, I can't belive that the yanks actually think they invented the car.....it's sad

they didn't invent it.. they just invented how to build it cheaply and efficiently.

No, the japanese did. Notice how Japanese car are cheaper and way more durable that US cars. Oh and the use less petrol too, so they're more effecient.
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#30 comp_atkins
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[QUOTE="comp_atkins"][QUOTE="jointed"]

[QUOTE="Salvy41"][QUOTE="nickmag"][QUOTE="mpython99"][QUOTE="Total-KO"]Because Europeans invented and practically own automotive transport..therefore we're right. Always.acekall

Right because it wasn't Henry Ford that rolled out with the first automobile, no it was some guy from across the pond. Oh and American cars do have gas tanks on both sides. And the reason we have different exhausts is that we have different pollution controls. So typically our engines are different than yours so we require different exhaust as well.

what? i didnt believe that Henry Ford made the first automobile and wiki says its some german bloke clicky linky

Steam-powered self propelled vehicles were devised in the late 17th century. A Flemish priest, Ferdinand Verbiest, demonstrated in 1678 a small steam car. The car was made for the Chinese emperor. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot successfully demonstrated such a vehicle on a real scale as early as 1769. Cugnot's invention initially saw little application in his native France, and the center of innovation passed to Great Britain, where Richard Trevithick was running a steam-carriage in 1801. Such vehicles were in vogue for a time, and over the next decades such innovations as hand brakes, multi-speed transmissions, and improved speed and steering were developed

Exactly, I can't belive that the yanks actually think they invented the car.....it's sad

they didn't invent it.. they just invented how to build it cheaply and efficiently.

No, the japanese did. Notice how Japanese car are cheaper and way more durable that US cars. Oh and the use less petrol too, so they're more effecient.

uh.. yeah, not in 1912 though.... and i meant build the car efficiently.... not that the car itself is efficient.
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American cars can only travel in straight lines.stevo1000

...or make left turns NASCARs do.

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Why do americans call it gas when it's clearly a liquid? :P
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I dont know about you guys, but i've owned three cars in my lifetime and they've all had the petrol tank on a different side. I didn't realise it was standardised in any way. :|
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#34 sca321
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I have an American car and the gas tank is on the right. (Actually I think it's in the middle under the car, but you fill it up on the right, which is what I assume he meant.)
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#35 cjek
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Cars here have the fuel tank on either side.. there is no standard; that's why there are left and right side pumps at petrol stations.
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#36 Hitman_KyeZ
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It's not very practical... just so you knowixlr8evo8

Because we drive right hand drive cars in UK, But actucally thats niot always the case with the fuel tank being on the right, it just depends what car you have as japenese cars fuel tanks in Uk are on the left.

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#37 Mr_Manikin52
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Why do americans call it gas when it's clearly a liquid? :PNinja-Vox

It's short for "Gasoline". Spanish word: "Gasolina"

Saying the word "petrol" just sounds too weird for us North Americans (Canadians, American, and Mexicans).