2012 KIA PICANTO — £6,990 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 16 April 2026 | Kempston, Bedford
£6,990
33,371 miles | Petrol | Automatic | Hatchback
Listing Quality
71/100
Good
vs Market Average
+20%
Above Market
Value Retention
80/100
Holding Value
Our Verdict
71 /100

This 2012 KIA PICANTO is listed at £6,990 by Park Road Garage Ltd in Kempston. It has 33,371 miles on the clock. At 20% above the market average of £5,813, this is priced on the higher side compared to 6 similar listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £337/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2012
Make KIA
Model PICANTO
Body Style Hatchback
Colour Red
Fuel Type Petrol
Gearbox Automatic
Mileage 33,371 miles
Engine 1.2L
All Features & Equipment (34)
Top speed101 mph0 to 6012.9 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)89Engine power (BHP)84Extra Urban (mpg)62.8Urban (mpg)42.2Combined (mpg)53.3Cylinders - bore (mm)71TransmissionAutomaticNumber of gears4Cylinders - stroke (mm)79CC1,248Cylinders4CO2 (g/km)125NOx (mg/km)0Standard Euro emissionsEuro 5Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantHeight1480mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength3595mmWheelbase2385mmWidth1595mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats5Fuel tank capacity35 litresGross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgMax towing weight (braked)kgMax towing weight (unbraked)kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight950 kg
Above MarketListed at £6,990 vs market average of £5,813 (+20%)
Market Low
£2,500
Market Average
£5,813
Market High
£8,695
Comparables
6 listings

Based on 6 comparable KIA PICANTO listings.

Age Depreciation
Holding Value
£37/year
Mileage Impact
Holding Value
£150/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Holding Value
£337/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £5,939 (+£1,051)
Mileage-predicted: £8,414 (£-1,424)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-187/yr | 10k mi/yr £-337/yr | 15k mi/yr £-487/yr

Based on 98 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

71
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
1 photos
2/10
Features & key selling points
34 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
6 specs provided
5/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
14/25Average
Clear pricing
£6,990
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
1 photos
0/5
Key selling points
34 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
6 specs provided
2/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
2012 Kia Picanto 1.25 2 Auto Euro 5 5dr £6,990
4/4
Meta description
2012 Kia Picanto 2, Automatic, In Red. FULL SERVIC...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
94% of 16 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
6799 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

Park Road Garage Ltd

Kempston, Bedford MK42 7SH