Leapmotor B10 review

Get ready for more excitement, because your colour choice for the interior is between ‘Light Grey’ and ‘Shadow Grey’. Easy tiger. At least a massive panoramic roof is standard to let in plenty of light, although the feel of the ‘Eco Leather’ heated/ventilated seats is pretty cheap and the plastics used on the dashboard and doorcards are even worse.

The dash is dominated by the 14.6in central touchscreen that controls pretty much every function on the car. There are far too many menus and submenus for our liking, and the small font and smartphone-like toggles make it particularly tricky to use on the move.

Sure, it’s a responsive screen and the graphics are of reasonable quality, but what use is that if you can’t actually control anything while driving? There are some shortcuts and customisable widgets at the bottom of the screen, but even they just take you through to another menu. Thankfully you do have Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as standard.

An 8.8in screen sits just behind the steering wheel (which does have a few proper buttons on it) and displays your driving data, although it also seems to think that every single road is a four-lane highway. Perhaps that’s just the car missing its homeland.

What’s the boot space like?

It’s plentiful. You get 430 litres of boot space in the back and up to 1,700 with the rear seats folded. There’s also a 25-litre frunk for storing charging cables and Leapmotor reckons there are 22 different storage spaces in the cabin itself. Some of those are more useful than others.

Legroom and headroom in the rear is also very impressive though, with plenty of room for 6ft adults in the back seats.