2016 SKODA OCTAVIA — £10,495 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 28 April 2026 | Houghton le Spring
£10,495
95,161 miles | Diesel | Automatic | Estate
Listing Quality
76/100
Good
vs Market Average
+17%
Above Market
Value Retention
65/100
Slow Depreciation
Our Verdict
76 /100

This 2016 SKODA OCTAVIA is listed at £10,495 by Perspective cars and commercials in Houghton le Spring. It has 95,161 miles on the clock. At 17% above the market average of £8,958, this is priced on the higher side compared to 32 similar listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £720/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2016
Make SKODA
Model OCTAVIA
Body Style Estate
Colour Blue
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Automatic
Mileage 95,161 miles
Engine 2L
Monthly Payment £211.04/mo
Above MarketListed at £10,495 vs market average of £8,958 (+17%)
Market Low
£4,695
Market Average
£8,958
Market High
£13,295
Comparables
32 listings

Based on 32 comparable SKODA OCTAVIA listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£633/year
Mileage Impact
Holding Value
£43/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Slow Depreciation
£720/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £9,700 (+£795)
Mileage-predicted: £10,295 (+£200)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-676/yr | 10k mi/yr £-720/yr | 15k mi/yr £-763/yr

Based on 135 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

76
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
25 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?
19/25Good
Clear pricing
£10,495
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£211.04/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
25 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
Skoda Octavia 2.0 TDI Vrs Estate 5dr Diesel DSg Eu
4/4
Meta description
2016 Skoda Octavia Vrs, Automatic, In Blue.....
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
96% of 57 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
7513 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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