Finally. Leapmotor dropped the interior photos for their flagship D99. It’s a minivan, technically, but calling it that feels lazy. This thing is built on their new LEAP 4.0 architecture. It comes with pure electric power or the extended-range hybrid option. The suspension? Dual-chamber air bags with CDC damping. They teased it last year at their tenth birthday bash, but the real deal is out now.
It’s basically a hotel room
The seating layout is 2-2-3. The front cabin looks like the D19. Big center screen, liquid crystal gauge cluster, HUD projection. Nothing revolutionary up top. The ceiling holds a screen for the kids though, or for you if you’re boring enough to want it.
Front seatbacks lie completely flat. Connects to the second row to make a bed. A real bed. Not that diagonal approximation other makers sell you. The second-row captains chairs spin. 90 degrees means you stare out the side windows at nothing. 180 degrees flips you backward to talk to the third row. Add the central table, and suddenly you’re having a board meeting on the freeway.
The third row isn’t an afterthought either. It has heating. It folds down flat into the trunk floor. Or, strangely, it flips forward to make “fishing seats.” You sit in your cargo space facing backward. Who is doing that? Probably someone with very specific hobbies.
“Creating a mobile lounge.”
Big and flashy
It keeps the Leapmotor face. Split headlights, pie-cut wheel design. They threw in DLP projection lights up front. Those interactive light screens on the rear? Sure. Why not.
It is big. Massive, even. 5.28 meters long. Almost 2 meters wide. Over a meter and a half tall. The wheelbase stretches 3.11 meters. You need a wide driveway for this one.
Horsepower wars
Inside the brains, two 8798 chips. Correction, 8295? No, the report says dual 8295s usually, but let’s stick to the text: dual chips providing 1280 TOPs. That’s enough processing power to simulate a small city while you’re trying to park.
Powertrains split by personality.
EREV version:
800V architecture. An 80.3 kWh pack gets you 352 km of electric range (WLTC). When the juice runs out, a 1.5T engine wakes up. Front and rear motors output 100 kW and 200 kW. That’s decent torque.
EV version:
1000V architecture, so charging is faster. CATL supplied a 115 kWh pack. You get 700 km on CLTC claims. The motors here are beefier. 180 kW upfront, 230 kW in back.
Sales are heating up
Leapmotor isn’t just showing slides. They are moving metal. April sales hit a record 71,388 units. That’s a 73% jump from last year. Month over month? Up another 43%. They are growing fast. Whether this minivan is the reason for it, or if people are just buying the C16s, nobody is questioning the momentum yet.
