About time I updated this opinion, since I have added nothing for 9 months. Well, we STILL own the vehicle, so please read on :- We bought a new Renault Espace 2 litre RXE in August 1993 and since then have covered over 68,000 miles. The registration number is L2RXE and it cost about £18,000 after discount. We decided on the Espace rather than the Toyota Previa because the sliding door on the Previa looked lethal if the car was parked on a slope. We had visions of it slicing off kids' fingers and bruising wives' ankles ! We needed a people carrier to replace a much-loved Fiat Croma (a very under-rated car), because ...  Read the complete review

I bought our Espace when it was 8 months old, together with an extended warranty (worth having - see later). 50,000 hard driving miles later it has proved to be pretty economical and reliable (total 61,000 miles now)...about 29, 30 m.p.g. in a mix of town and open road - though it's the 2.0 litre engine. Incidentally, the 3 litre is not worth having, at least in this model (I don't know about the latest model), it's barely any faster and much worse on fuel - though because it depreciates much more than the 2.0 litre it may be a better, i.e. cheaper, second-hand buy - just a question of weighing up the pros and cons. Front tyres will last ...  Read the complete review

This was the most expensive car we ever bought - in every sense of that phrase. It was top of the range and for the passenger, felt as though you were travelling in an armchair.As it had a 3l engine it was powerful, but very heavy on fuel. The space it had available was also wonderful, and it *was* nice to be able to play around with seating so that the 3 kids couldn't reach eachother to fight. There are its' good points.....now for the rest. It was the most unreliable car ever. I cannot begin to enumerate the many and varied ailments it suffered.......we got an extra year free warranty because of its unreliability in the first year. We then made ...  Read the complete review

This was the most expensive car we ever bought - in every sense of that phrase. It was top of the range and for the passenger, felt as though you were travelling in an armchair.As it had a 3l engine it was powerful, but very heavy on fuel. The space it had available was also wonderful, and it *was* nice to be able to play around with seating so that the 3 kids couldn't reach eachother to fight. These are its' good points.....now for the rest. It was the most unreliable car ever. I cannot begin to enumerate the many and varied ailments it suffered.......we got an extra year free warranty because of its unreliability in the first year. We then made the ...  Read the complete review