2016 BMW 3 SERIES — £12,699 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 24 April 2026 | Tonypandy
£12,699
68,211 miles | Diesel | Automatic | Saloon
Listing Quality
82/100
Good
vs Market Average
-16%
Below Market
Value Retention
25/100
Steep Depreciation
Our Verdict
82 /100

This 2016 BMW 3 SERIES is listed at £12,699 by Pinetree Car Superstore - Tonypandy in Tonypandy. It has 68,211 miles on the clock. At 16% below the market average of £15,121, this looks competitively priced based on 108 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £3,293/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2016
Make BMW
Model 3 SERIES
Body Style Saloon
Colour Blue
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Automatic
Mileage 68,211 miles
Engine 2L
All Features & Equipment (42)
Armrest - Front with Sliding Adjustment £45Enhanced Bluetooth Telephone Preparation with USB Audio Interface and Voice Control £430Estoril Blue £645Exterior Mirrors - Electrically Folding with Anti Dazzle £300Full Black Panel Display £140Media Package - BMW Professional £900Seat Heating for Driver and Front Passenger £325Sun Protection Glazing £265Total value of factory fitted extras £3,050Top speed143 mph0 to 607.3 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)295Engine power (BHP)187Extra Urban (mpg)72.4Urban (mpg)54.3Combined (mpg)64.2Cylinders - bore (mm)84TransmissionAutomaticNumber of gears8Cylinders - stroke (mm)90CC1,995Cylinders4CO2 (g/km)116NOx (mg/km)0Standard Euro emissionsEuro 6Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantHeight1431mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4633mmWheelbase2810mmWidth1811mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats5Gross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgMax towing weight (braked)kgMax towing weight (unbraked)kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight1510 kg
Below MarketListed at £12,699 vs market average of £15,121 (-16%)
Market Low
£4,810
Market Average
£15,121
Market High
£43,500
Comparables
108 listings

Based on 108 comparable BMW 3 SERIES listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£1,296/year
Mileage Impact
Moderate Depreciation
£999/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Steep Depreciation
£3,293/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £13,145 (£-446)
Mileage-predicted: £16,068 (£-3,369)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-2,294/yr | 10k mi/yr £-3,293/yr | 15k mi/yr £-4,291/yr

Based on 429 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

82
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
52 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
42 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
£12,699
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
52 photos
5/5
Key selling points
42 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
BMW 3 Series 2.0 320d M Sport Saloon 4dr Diesel Au
4/4
Meta description
2016 BMW 3 Series M Sport, Automatic, In Blue. M S...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
98% of 106 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?
18/25Good
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
Generic div/span markup — harder for AI to parse
1/4
Content depth
7157 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.

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