2017 FORD FOCUS — £8,995 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 16 April 2026 | Fort William
£8,995
70,395 miles | Diesel | Manual | Hatchback
Listing Quality
79/100
Good
vs Market Average
-2%
Fair Price
Value Retention
65/100
Slow Depreciation
Our Verdict
79 /100

This 2017 FORD FOCUS is listed at £8,995 by Ben Nevis Motors Ltd in Fort William. It has 70,395 miles on the clock. Priced in line with the market average of £9,140 based on 159 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £1,452/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2017
Make FORD
Model FOCUS
Body Style Hatchback
Colour Grey
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 70,395 miles
Engine 1.5L
All Features & Equipment (76)
Appearance Pack 1 £500Magnetic £525Total value of factory fitted extras £1,025Top speed120 mph0 to 6010.5 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)199Engine power (BHP)118Extra Urban (mpg)83.1Urban (mpg)65.7Combined (mpg)74.3Cylinders - bore (mm)74TransmissionManualNumber of gears6Cylinders - stroke (mm)88CC1,498Cylinders4CO2 (g/km)99Standard Euro emissionsEuro 6Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantAir Conditioning - ManualCentre Console with Armrest - Open Stowage BinsCourtesy Light - Front and Rear Passengers - Overhead Halogen and Load CompartmentDrivers Seat Lumbar AdjustFront Floor MatsFront Seat - Drivers Manual Height and Fore-Aft AdjustmentFront Seat - Passenger Manual Fore-Aft AdjustmentFront Seats - Sports StyleMyKeySteering Column - Rake and Reach AdjustmentSteering Wheel - 3 Spoke - Leather TrimmedAppearance Pack 116in Alloy WheelsChrome Finish on Upper Door LineDoor Mirrors - Heated - Electric - Integrated Side Indicators - Body ColouredFront Grille - Chrome FinishLocking Wheel NutsQuickclear Heated Front Windscreen with Heated Washer JetsRear Privacy GlassRear Spoiler - Body ColourSpare Wheel - Mini SteelWindows - Electrically Operated Front with One Touch Lowering on Drivers SideWipers - Standard with 6 Speed Interval SettingsHeight1469mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4360mmWheelbase2648mmWidth2010mmWidth 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 weight1268 kgAirbags - Driver and Front PassengerAirbags - Front Side ImpactAirbags - Front and Rear Side CurtainAlarm - Thatcham Category 1 with Volume Sensing and PerimeterAnti-Lock Braking System - ABS with Electronic Brake Force Distribution - EBDCruise Control with Active Speed LimiterElectronic Stability Programme - ESP - with Traction Control and Emergency Brake Assist - EBAEmergency Brake Warning - Automatic Hazard Warning LightsFord Easy-Fuel Capless Refuelling SystemFord Eco Mode - Driver Information SystemHill Start AssistIPS - Intelligent Protection SystemParking Distance Sensors - RearRemote Central-Double LockingSeats - ISOFIX Mounting Provision for Child SeatsTVC - Torque Vectoring ControlTrip ComputerTyre Pressure Monitoring System
At MarketListed at £8,995 vs market average of £9,140 (-2%)
Market Low
£3,990
Market Average
£9,140
Market High
£18,995
Comparables
159 listings

Based on 159 comparable FORD FOCUS listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£745/year
Mileage Impact
Slow Depreciation
£353/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Slow Depreciation
£1,452/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £8,880 (+£115)
Mileage-predicted: £9,019 (£-24)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,098/yr | 10k mi/yr £-1,452/yr | 15k mi/yr £-1,805/yr

Based on 523 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

79
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?
21/25Good
Photos
19 photos
8/10
Features & key selling points
76 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
£8,995
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
19 photos
5/5
Key selling points
76 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
6 specs provided
2/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
21/25Good
Page title tag
Ford Focus 1.5 TDCI Zetec Edition Hatchback 5dr Di
4/4
Meta description
2017 Ford Focus Zetec Edition, Manual, In Grey.....
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
93% of 54 images have alt text
3/3
Clean URL structure
SEO-friendly URL
3/3
Heading structure
2 H1 tag(s)
2/3
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
7722 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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About the Dealer

Ben Nevis Motors Ltd

Fort William PH33 6PP