Leapmotor Tops 100,000 Monthly Deliveries and Quietly Cuts Prices: Which A10 Trim Are Buyers Actually Choosing?

Leapmotor crossed the 100,000-units-per-month mark in August, a threshold once considered BYD's alone, and the biggest single driver is the A10 — a model that has moved close to 100,000 units in roughly four months on sale. A weekend showroom visit found packed floors, with staff saying most walk-ins ask about the A10 before anything else.

Sales data from March through July shows demand concentrating in two variants. The 76,800-yuan 505 Yuexiang trim alone accounted for 33,369 units, nearly half of the total, while the 86,800-yuan 505 LiDAR trim took 28,373 units, about 37% — evidence that a large share of buyers will pay an extra 10,000 yuan for lidar-based driver assistance. The two 505-km versions together claimed over 80% of the mix, with the shorter-range 403-km trims stuck below 20%, a clear sign that range anxiety still governs purchase decisions at this price point.

Regionally, Zhejiang led all provinces with 2,104 units, helped by Leapmotor's Hangzhou headquarters and local subsidies, followed by Guangdong, Jiangsu and Shandong. Hangzhou topped the city chart with 514 units, and five new first-tier cities — Hangzhou, Suzhou, Zhengzhou, Chengdu and Chongqing — filled half the top ten with a combined 2,100-plus units, out-selling Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen combined. The south-leaning split, the author notes, tracks with milder winters, higher EV acceptance and Leapmotor's denser southern dealer network; Zhengzhou's third-place 446 units underline strong demand for affordable long-range commuters in central China.

Layered on top is a 3.5% purchase subsidy — an 80-million-yuan Hangzhou district fund that buyers anywhere in China can claim on invoice, first come first served. That drops the best-selling trim to roughly 74,100 yuan and the LiDAR version to about 83,800 yuan, an effective discount of a couple thousand yuan on a sub-100,000-yuan car. The piece argues this deepens Leapmotor's volume-cost-price flywheel, with advanced driver assistance no longer reserved for premium vehicles.