Old Top Gear 1997 - Renault Espace & Chrysler Voyager

Jeremy Clarkson road tests 2 new people carriers from the 2 manufacturers that invented them, Chrysler and Renault.
Taken from a early 1997 episode of the old format Top Gear

[@dimashevchenkoua]

That old Top Gear intro is fantastic!

[@joshbacon8241]

*"Quite frankly, I'd rather have a vasectomy than a people carrier."* _- Jeremy Clarkson_

[@michealbithi1290]

"fits like a glove" what i thought that moment: LIKE A GLOOOOVVEEEEE

[@jackcurtis9002]

"I'm Jeremy Clarkson, this car was popularized by the French, therefore I shall trashtalk it."

[@R33Racer]

Well he did trash talk the Serena too. The Espace was completely shamed by the Vauxhall Zafira a year or so later anyway.

[@yudhabagaskara98]

And then 10 years later an espace was used to be crushed by a train

[@cc-nm9pv]

I have a Renault espace from 2001 in 2022 it still works allright😂

[@tmanepic]

"ah, let's pop round to the demolition daaby, ay?"

[@a-aron5691]

You didn't hear that "E"? Here let me point it out to you AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÆAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@caprise-music6722]

It’s written E, and it’s pronounced E. It just sounds different

[@KiloByte69]

Smoke! SMOKE!

[@terryah2136]

The Espace would look even better as a convertible. Oh wait...

[@tomahawkstudios9688]

I'd rather have a vasectomy than any Chrysler, quite frankly

[@MrROTD]

I have both

[@justabagel5173]

i also say that but we had a 3.3 v6 voyager in 11 years and 150k miles hardly anything went wrong that one they got right .

[@staktikis]

I had a vasectomy, so i don't need a Voyager :)

[@mediocre-motorcycle-modifi6818]

Interesting the Renault has 3 valves per cylinder to fit in the indirect injection! Made until 2002, I wonder if it was the last ID diesel in Europe?

[@dragonbutt]

TFW the Voyager was on sale before the Espace (late 83 compared to the Espace in 84). Still, that Espace looks good. Better than a plain american minivan. But then again american minivans look good blacked out.

[@miljororforsprakpartiet290]

Meanwhile, the Toyota Hiace and Daihatsu Hijet minivans came out much earlier (minivan of Hijet was in production at least in 1971). Gotta agree the Renault looks good tho :)

[@dragonbutt]

RÅLAND Ah yes, two of the least comfortable, slowest, unsafe vehicles to ever be produced by them :P

[@miljororforsprakpartiet290]

Not to mention the ugliest. I thought the 70s Transit was ugly until I saw the 70s Hijet...

[@panosa2502]

Voyager was a minivan but not a monospace. The Hiace and Hijet were by design monospace minivans but they were not family cars in the sense monospaces are as they could not run in the highway at high speeds. Renault Espace was the original monospace. And the best of it. Clarkson just does not like most of French cars, that is all.

[@irfanyxp5593]

I wanna Espace F1

[@joe125ful]

3:31 Load stuff and remove seats:) Still great car!

[@berendoldenburger]

Jeremy forgot to mention that the Grand Voyager has a 0 star Euro NCAP safety rating.

[@dextertreehorn]

BerendOldenburgerVEVO ... but he had a bad feeling with the kids in the back (of the Espace)

[@tomoluis_01]

From the EuroNCAP’s actual website, the Chrysler Voyager (when sold in America as the Plymouth Voyager, Dodge Caravan, and Chrysler Town and Country), it received a two-star rating overall.

[@mayclarque4123]

However, it was considered “Average” in a study in Sweden.

[@thediabetico6130]

oh how i remember that intro

[@BradTheThird]

Someone will wonder this at some point in this videos future so here it is. The song at the beginning (after the intro) is "Parisienne Walkways" by Gary Moore.

[@therealthegreens]

Great!

[@KrzychuPL-rz9rq]

Historia motoryzacji:)

[@rileysutton2823]

8:14 Dodge grille on a Chrysler Voyager

[@DankBlank]

If top gear

[@miljororforsprakpartiet290]

Sorry to open your eyes, but 1997 actually *is* pre-2015 :D

[@josephcarrington8834]

Dont think hes biking anymore

[@stulchmulch227]

4 years later a legend with the same name would be born and no one knew back then that it would produce 22 seasons

[@22fret]

No Diesel option in the Voyager? A friend of mine had one with a 2.5TD...

[@pmvaldez1]

22fret what year was it?

[@tomkolbin7565]

thats correct, 2,5; 3.3 and 3.8 petrol and 2.5 diesel with only manual tran

[@TheIdiotPlays]

3:10 insert lenny face here

[@Jan_Iedema]

Oh that intro hahahaha

[@victorgerginski4393]

he calls GSM - system that doesn't work haha hilarious how times have changed...

[@MrRicearonie]

"With racey thrills now…" talks about minivans :/

[@JakeTheSnakeProductions]

2:05 ....... LOL

[@panosa2502]

Meanwhile I see still all those Renault Espaces running well after 20+ years while Voyagers? LOL! Either they did not sell at all or they were not made that tough. Renault Espace was also the one and only monospace that was cool looking and you were not ashamed of driving. Clarkson does not like most of French cars and so does reject this Renault here too but this had been an excellent car.

[@shroomyesc]

It's exactly the opposite here in Finland. Plenty voyagers from the 80's models to the 00's models but no espaces.

[@Elliewillamssupreme]

My voyager is a 01 reg and still going after 200000 miles!

[@panosa2502]

Visit Paris. Plenty of old Espaces roaming around. And these Espaces spent most of their life in Paris, not coasting around leisurly the Finnish lakes. Of course you may claim that is down to numbers (more sold in France) but then why that wouldn't be the case for Finland or Britain? You have also to note the differences among drivers that drive each type of vehicle, afterall it is all going down to statistics. I have worked in quality in the past, even if for a brief period, and I am aware how complex is the exact measurement of quality. If - say for example - Renault attracts, for whatever reason, the type of driver who has no personal garage, who is wreckless with the car, who is skipping maintenance by 10 or 15,000 kilometers, who never checks oil and water and who when remembering to maintain goes to the cheapest thieving-prone garage, then no wonder one won't be finding many of them 15-20 years later.

[@Elliewillamssupreme]

Panos A my voyager has been driving around busy London for the last 17 years your point is?

[@panosa2502]

+Daisy Harris My point is that your experience with your Voyager is quite commonly shared by Espace drivers in the most congested city in Europe, Paris.

[@owenbatchelder6230]

Calling the Espace unsafe when it was first with a 5 star EURO NCAP whilst recommending the Voyager with no diesel options and so unsafe it was pulled from sale. This is why I don't listen to Clarkson for serious advice

[@JewCrew420]

My mum used to own one

[@mayclarque4123]

Chrysler’s Minivan came out before the Espace by about three months.

[@fatdudewh33lchair]

I wouldn’t be found dead in a Chrysler. I probably would if I crashed in one but I would never have gotten in one to begin with. They’re god awful at quality.

[@rowanbaker2721]

Rid urban please scenario palm relative please lovely genetic credit keep.

[@walterrijke3295]

ugly renault