2009 Mercedes-Benz C CLASS — £4,995 Listing Review

Item: 2009 Mercedes-Benz C CLASS
Rating: 76
Author: Car-Search.ai

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 18 April 2026 | Unit 2 Forth Ave, Kirkcaldy

£4,995

87,000 miles | Petrol | Automatic | Estate

Listing Quality

76/100

Good

vs Market Average

-52%

Below Market

Value Retention

25/100

Steep Depreciation

Our Verdict

76 /100

This 2009 Mercedes-Benz C CLASS is listed at £4,995 by Craignairn Cars Ltd in Unit 2 Forth Ave. It has 87,000 miles on the clock. At 52% below the market average of £10,437, this looks competitively priced based on 5 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £3,904/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2009

Make Mercedes-Benz

Model C CLASS

Body Style Estate

Colour Silver

Fuel Type Petrol

Gearbox Automatic

Mileage 87,000 miles

Engine 1.6L

Monthly Payment £96.25/mo

Below MarketListed at £4,995 vs market average of £10,437 (-52%)

Market Low

£5,490

Market Average

£10,437

Market High

£21,750

Comparables

5 listings

Based on 5 comparable Mercedes-Benz C CLASS listings.

Age Depreciation

Moderate Depreciation

£2,064/year

Mileage Impact

Moderate Depreciation

£920/5k mi

Combined (10k mi/yr)

Steep Depreciation

£3,904/yr

This Vehicle vs Model

Age-predicted: £8,122 (£-3,127)

Mileage-predicted: £13,372 (£-8,377)

Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-2,984/yr | 10k mi/yr £-3,904/yr | 15k mi/yr £-4,824/yr

Based on 84 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

Overall Listing Quality

Good — this listing is well-presented and informative.

Information & Buyer Appeal

Does this listing give buyers enough information to make a decision?

15/25Average

Photos

47 photos

10/10

Features & key selling points

0 listed

0/8

Technical specifications

6 specs provided

5/7

Competitiveness

How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?

19/25Good

Clear pricing

£4,995

8/8

Monthly payment shown

£96.25/mo

4/4

Visual presentation

47 photos

5/5

Key selling points

0 features highlighted

0/4

Detailed specifications

6 specs provided

2/4

SEO Quality

Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML

22/25Good

Page title tag

Mercedes-Benz C Class 1.6 C180k Blueefficiency SE

4/4

Meta description

2009 Mercedes-Benz C Class Se, Automatic, In Silve...

4/4

Canonical URL

Present

3/3

Open Graph tags

Missing or incomplete

0/3

Image alt text

98% of 90 images have alt text

3/3

Clean URL structure

SEO-friendly URL

3/3

Heading structure

1 H1 tag(s)

3/3

Indexability

Page is indexable

2/2

AI Discoverability

How findable is this listing by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other AI search engines?

20/25Good

Schema.org Vehicle markup

Vehicle/Car structured data found

6/6

Static HTML content

Vehicle data present in static HTML

5/5

Semantic HTML structure

Spec data in structured elements

3/4

Content depth

7435 words of text content

4/4

AI crawler access

Cloudflare detected — may block GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot

0/3

Bot-friendly

Assumed accessible — robots.txt not checked

2/3

How our review page compares

This Car-Search.ai listing review page scores 95+/100 on all four categories. It includes Schema.org Vehicle + Review structured data, semantic HTML, per-page meta descriptions, Open Graph tags, canonical URLs, static HTML rendering, market analysis, depreciation vectors, and rich narrative content — fully accessible to Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and all AI search engines.