Leapmotor B10 review

The price is £29,995, which means it undercuts a base spec Vauxhall Mokka Electric by a couple of hundred pounds and offers way more kit for the money.

Interestingly, the larger C10 is only three grand dearer – Leapmotor has its own discounting formula because its cars don't qualify for the government's Electric Car Grant – so it’s not a giant leap to get into the bigger erm… Leapmotor.

It's a piece of cake to spec a B10 in the UK, because the only choice you need to make is what colour you’d like it to be on the outside, and what shade of grey you’d like on the inside. Yep, that’s it.

Weirdly, Leapmotor’s latest paint colour is called ‘Starry Night Blue’ and we’re told it was inspired by the Van Gogh painting... judge for yourself in the images above. Anyway, that’s the free paint colour in the UK, while the others (a purple, black, grey, silver and white) are £575.

There are no wheel choices, but 18in alloys are standard, as are the panoramic roof, LED lights, a powered tailgate and the fiddly flush door handles.

Inside the kit list includes heated and ventilated seats, a heated steering wheel, 360-degree parking camera, a 12-speaker sound system, 64 different colours of ambient lighting and wireless phone charging.

A heat pump is also standard fit which is good news for winter range, and charging tops out at 168kW, so in theory a 30 to 80 per cent top up should take just 20 minutes.