2016 Mercedes-Benz C-CLASS — £16,499 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 16 April 2026 | Tonteg, Pontypridd
£16,499
40,900 miles | Diesel | Manual
Listing Quality
75/100
Good
vs Market Average
-11%
Below Market
Value Retention
25/100
Steep Depreciation
Our Verdict
75 /100

This 2016 Mercedes-Benz C-CLASS is listed at £16,499 by SBM SMARTBUY MOTORS TONTEG in Tonteg. It has 40,900 miles on the clock. At 11% below the market average of £18,436, this looks competitively priced based on 83 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £4,149/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2016
Make Mercedes-Benz
Model C-CLASS
Colour Black
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 40,900 miles
Engine 2.1L
Monthly Payment £383.6/mo
Below MarketListed at £16,499 vs market average of £18,436 (-11%)
Market Low
£5,995
Market Average
£18,436
Market High
£34,989
Comparables
83 listings

Based on 83 comparable Mercedes-Benz C-CLASS listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£1,299/year
Mileage Impact
Steep Depreciation
£1,425/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Steep Depreciation
£4,149/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £15,457 (+£1,042)
Mileage-predicted: £20,032 (£-3,533)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-2,724/yr | 10k mi/yr £-4,149/yr | 15k mi/yr £-5,575/yr

Based on 344 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

75
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?
14/25Average
Photos
26 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
0 listed
0/8
Technical specifications
5 specs provided
4/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
19/25Good
Clear pricing
£16,499
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£383.6/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
26 photos
5/5
Key selling points
0 features highlighted
0/4
Detailed specifications
5 specs provided
2/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
Mercedes-Benz C-Class 2.1 C220d Amg Line Cabriolet
4/4
Meta description
2016 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Amg Line, Manual, In Bl...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
83% of 66 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
7239 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

SBM SMARTBUY MOTORS TONTEG

Tonteg, Pontypridd CF38 1PW