2012 FORD FOCUS — £6,995 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 16 April 2026 | 215 Derby St, Bolton
£6,995
73,442 miles | Petrol | Manual | Hatchback
Listing Quality
72/100
Good
vs Market Average
+6%
Above Market
Value Retention
65/100
Slow Depreciation
Our Verdict
72 /100

This 2012 FORD FOCUS is listed at £6,995 by Lostock Car Sales in 215 Derby St. It has 73,442 miles on the clock. At 6% above the market average of £6,579, this is priced on the higher side compared to 66 similar listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £1,024/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2012
Make FORD
Model FOCUS
Body Style Hatchback
Colour Red
Fuel Type Petrol
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 73,442 miles
Engine 2L
Above MarketListed at £6,995 vs market average of £6,579 (+6%)
Market Low
£2,490
Market Average
£6,579
Market High
£15,995
Comparables
66 listings

Based on 66 comparable FORD FOCUS listings.

Age Depreciation
Holding Value
£317/year
Mileage Impact
Slow Depreciation
£353/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Slow Depreciation
£1,024/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £5,317 (+£1,678)
Mileage-predicted: £9,019 (£-2,024)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-670/yr | 10k mi/yr £-1,024/yr | 15k mi/yr £-1,377/yr

Based on 523 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

72
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
30 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?
15/25Average
Clear pricing
£6,995
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
30 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
Ford Focus 2.0t Ecoboost St-3 Hatchback 5dr Petrol
4/4
Meta description
2012 Ford Focus St-3, Manual, In Red. FORD FOCUS S...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
100% of 51 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
6620 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

Lostock Car Sales

215 Derby St, Bolton BL3 6JF