2012 Mercedes-Benz C CLASS — £5,490 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 18 April 2026 | Kempston, Bedford
£5,490
97,343 miles | Petrol | Automatic | Estate
Listing Quality
84/100
Good
vs Market Average
-66%
Below Market
Value Retention
25/100
Steep Depreciation
Our Verdict
84 /100

This 2012 Mercedes-Benz C CLASS is listed at £5,490 by Park Road Garage Ltd in Kempston. It has 97,343 miles on the clock. At 66% below the market average of £16,128, this looks competitively priced based on 5 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £3,481/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2012
Make Mercedes-Benz
Model C CLASS
Body Style Estate
Colour Red
Fuel Type Petrol
Gearbox Automatic
Mileage 97,343 miles
Engine 1.8L
All Features & Equipment (34)
Top speed134 mph0 to 609.1 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)184Engine power (BHP)154Extra Urban (mpg)52.3Urban (mpg)32.5Combined (mpg)42.8Cylinders - bore (mm)82TransmissionAutomaticNumber of gears7Cylinders - stroke (mm)85CC1,796Cylinders4CO2 (g/km)163NOx (mg/km)0Standard Euro emissionsEuro 5Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantHeight1459mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4606mmWheelbase2760mmWidth2008mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats5Fuel tank capacity59 litresGross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgMax towing weight (braked)kgMax towing weight (unbraked)kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight1545 kg
Below MarketListed at £5,490 vs market average of £16,128 (-66%)
Market Low
£4,995
Market Average
£16,128
Market High
£46,995
Comparables
5 listings

Based on 5 comparable Mercedes-Benz C CLASS listings.

Age Depreciation
Moderate Depreciation
£2,227/year
Mileage Impact
Moderate Depreciation
£627/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Steep Depreciation
£3,481/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £15,751 (£-10,261)
Mileage-predicted: £12,136 (£-6,646)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-2,854/yr | 10k mi/yr £-3,481/yr | 15k mi/yr £-4,109/yr

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

84
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?
23/25Good
Photos
30 photos
10/10
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?
19/25Good
Clear pricing
£5,490
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
30 photos
5/5
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
Mercedes-Benz C Class 1.8 C180 Blueefficiency Spor
4/4
Meta description
2012 Mercedes-Benz C Class Sport, Automatic, In Re...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
97% of 75 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
6834 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