2012 CITROEN C1 — £2,000 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 28 April 2026 | Preston
£2,000
85,155 miles | Petrol | Manual | Hatchback
Listing Quality
92/100
Good
vs Market Average
-20%
Below Market
Value Retention
45/100
Moderate Depreciation
Our Verdict
92 /100

This 2012 CITROEN C1 is listed at £2,000 by KIRKHAM PART EXCHANGE CENTRE LTD in Preston. It has 85,155 miles on the clock. At 20% below the market average of £2,504, this looks competitively priced based on 6 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £1,934/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2012
Make CITROEN
Model C1
Body Style Hatchback
Colour White
Fuel Type Petrol
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 85,155 miles
Engine 1L
Seats 4
CO2 103 g/km
Euro Status Euro 5
ULEZ Compliant Compliant
Monthly Payment £59/mo
Power 67 BHP
Torque 69 lbs/ft
Top Speed 98 mph
0-60 mph 13.7s
Cylinders 3
Gears 5
Combined MPG 62.8 mpg
Urban MPG 52.3 mpg
Extra Urban MPG 70.6 mpg
Length 3435mm
Width 1630mm
Height 1465mm
Wheelbase 2340mm
Kerb Weight 805 kg
All Features & Equipment (50)
Top speed98 mph0 to 6013.7 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)69Engine power (BHP)67Extra Urban (mpg)70.6Urban (mpg)52.3Combined (mpg)62.8Cylinders - bore (mm)71TransmissionManualNumber of gears5Cylinders - stroke (mm)84CC998Cylinders3CO2 (g/km)103Standard Euro emissionsEuro 5Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantAir ConditioningHeight-Adjustable Steering WheelLuggage CoverStorage - DashboardStorage - Front Door PocketsStorage - Rear Door Pockets14in Steel Wheels with Eole CoversBlack Door Handles - Door Mirrors and GrilleBumpers - Body Coloured FrontFront Electric WindowsSpare Wheel - Full SizeABS - Anti-Lock Braking SystemAirbags - DriverAnti-Theft AlarmCentral LockingCentral Locking - RemoteCornering Stability ControlEBFD - Electronic Brakeforce DistributionFront Passenger AirbagSpeedometerHeight1465mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength3435mmWheelbase2340mmWidth1630mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats4Gross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight805 kg
Below MarketListed at £2,000 vs market average of £2,504 (-20%)
Market Low
£1,150
Market Average
£2,504
Market High
£4,495
Comparables
6 listings

Based on 6 comparable CITROEN C1 listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£672/year
Mileage Impact
Moderate Depreciation
£631/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Moderate Depreciation
£1,934/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £2,470 (£-470)
Mileage-predicted: £2,887 (£-887)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,303/yr | 10k mi/yr £-1,934/yr | 15k mi/yr £-2,565/yr

Based on 58 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

92
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?
25/25Good
Photos
24 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
50 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
22 specs provided (incl. 14 extended)
7/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
25/25Good
Clear pricing
£2,000
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£59/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
24 photos
5/5
Key selling points
50 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
22 specs provided
4/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
Citroen C1 1.0i VTR Hatchback 5dr Petrol Manual Eu
4/4
Meta description
2012 Citroen C1 VTR, Manual, In White. MOT MARCH 2...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
93% of 40 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
7861 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.

Independent review — we are not affiliated with the dealer.

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About the Dealer

KIRKHAM PART EXCHANGE CENTRE LTD

Preston PR4 2RE