Boop, boop. Beep, beep, beep. Etc. You probably expect a higher standard of writing from Autocar than some disconnected onomatopoeia, but then we expect a higher standard of safety systems in cars.
During my first handful of miles in the Leapmotor C10, it would not shut up for more than 10 seconds. Eventually, I figured out that the driver monitoring system couldn’t recognise my face and I turned it off (the system, not my face), together with the lane keeping assist, which tugs at the steering incessantly.
Leapmotor is the latest Chinese entrant into the European market, but with a difference: it’s backed by Stellantis, which owns 51% of its export operation and even builds the T03 city car in its plant in Poland for LHD markets. Such integration, it…