2013 BMW 1 SERIES — £3,979 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 28 April 2026 | Hudcar Ln, Bury
£3,979
118,000 miles | Diesel | Manual | Hatchback
Listing Quality
72/100
Good
vs Market Average
-24%
Below Market
Value Retention
45/100
Moderate Depreciation
Our Verdict
72 /100

This 2013 BMW 1 SERIES is listed at £3,979 by Motorshift Limited Bury in Hudcar Ln. It has 118,000 miles on the clock. At 24% below the market average of £5,204, this looks competitively priced based on 11 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £1,728/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2013
Make BMW
Model 1 SERIES
Body Style Hatchback
Colour Grey
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 118,000 miles
Engine 2L
Below MarketListed at £3,979 vs market average of £5,204 (-24%)
Market Low
£3,984
Market Average
£5,204
Market High
£6,695
Comparables
11 listings

Based on 11 comparable BMW 1 SERIES listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£817/year
Mileage Impact
Slow Depreciation
£456/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Moderate Depreciation
£1,728/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £8,061 (£-4,082)
Mileage-predicted: £7,375 (£-3,396)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,272/yr | 10k mi/yr £-1,728/yr | 15k mi/yr £-2,184/yr

Based on 355 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
56 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
£3,979
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
56 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
BMW 1 Series 2.0 116d M Sport Hatchback 5dr Diesel
4/4
Meta description
2013 BMW 1 Series M Sport, Manual, In Grey. WARRAN...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
98% of 107 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
8350 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

Motorshift Limited Bury

Hudcar Ln, Bury BL9 6HD