2016 VOLKSWAGEN POLO — £9,494 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 5 April 2026 | Berkeley, Gloucestershire
£9,494
68,000 miles | Petrol | Manual
Listing Quality
84/100
Good
vs Market Average
-1%
Fair Price
Value Retention
45/100
Moderate Depreciation
Our Verdict
84 /100

This 2016 VOLKSWAGEN POLO is listed at £9,494 by Alisons Automotive Group in Berkeley. It has 68,000 miles on the clock. Priced in line with the market average of £9,556 based on 90 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £1,584/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2016
Make VOLKSWAGEN
Model POLO
Colour Blue
Fuel Type Petrol
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 68,000 miles
Engine 1.8L
Seats 5
CO2 139 g/km
Euro Status Euro 6
ULEZ Compliant Compliant
Monthly Payment £179.37/mo
Power 189 BHP
Torque 236 lbs/ft
Top Speed 146 mph
0-60 mph 6.7s
Cylinders 4
Gears 6
Combined MPG 47.1 mpg
Urban MPG 37.2 mpg
Extra Urban MPG 55.4 mpg
Length 3983mm
Width 1901mm
Height 1462mm
Wheelbase 2468mm
Kerb Weight 1197 kg
All Features & Equipment (33)
Top speed146 mph0 to 606.7 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)236Engine power (BHP)189Extra Urban (mpg)55.4Urban (mpg)37.2Combined (mpg)47.1Cylinders - bore (mm)82TransmissionManualNumber of gears6Cylinders - stroke (mm)84CC1,798Cylinders4CO2 (g/km)139Standard Euro emissionsEuro 6Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantHeight1462mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength3983mmWheelbase2468mmWidth1901mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats5Fuel tank capacity45 litresGross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgMax towing weight (braked)kgMax towing weight (unbraked)kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight1197 kg
At MarketListed at £9,494 vs market average of £9,556 (-1%)
Market Low
£5,990
Market Average
£9,556
Market High
£43,995
Comparables
90 listings

Based on 90 comparable VOLKSWAGEN POLO listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£757/year
Mileage Impact
Slow Depreciation
£414/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Moderate Depreciation
£1,584/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £9,011 (+£483)
Mileage-predicted: £9,282 (+£212)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,170/yr | 10k mi/yr £-1,584/yr | 15k mi/yr £-1,997/yr

Based on 389 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?
19/25Good
Photos
9 photos
5/10
Features & key selling points
33 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
21 specs provided (incl. 14 extended)
6/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
23/25Good
Clear pricing
£9,494
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£179.37/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
9 photos
3/5
Key selling points
33 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
21 specs provided
4/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
Volkswagen Polo 1.8 TSI Bluemotion Tech GTI Euro 6
4/4
Meta description
2016 Volkswagen Polo GTI, Manual, In Blue. JUST AR...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
88% of 17 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
7398 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

Alisons Automotive Group

Berkeley, Gloucestershire GL13 9ET