2018 AUDI A3 — £8,500 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 6 April 2026 | Stanground, Peterborough
£8,500
84,504 miles | Petrol | Manual
Listing Quality
90/100
Good
vs Market Average
-24%
Below Market
Value Retention
45/100
Moderate Depreciation
Our Verdict
90 /100

This 2018 AUDI A3 is listed at £8,500 by 3 KM Car Sales Ltd in Stanground. It has 84,504 miles on the clock. At 24% below the market average of £11,247, this looks competitively priced based on 103 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £1,627/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2018
Make AUDI
Model A3
Colour Black
Fuel Type Petrol
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 84,504 miles
Engine 1L
Seats 5
CO2 114 g/km
Euro Status Euro 6
ULEZ Compliant Compliant
Monthly Payment £133.31/mo
Power 114 BHP
Torque 148 lbs/ft
Top Speed 128 mph
0-60 mph 9.9s
Cylinders 3
Gears 6
Combined MPG 49.6 mpg
Length 4313mm
Width 1966mm
Height 1426mm
Wheelbase 2637mm
Kerb Weight 1190 kg
All Features & Equipment (30)
Top speed128 mph0 to 609.9 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)148Engine power (BHP)114Combined (mpg)49.6Cylinders - bore (mm)74TransmissionManualNumber of gears6Cylinders - stroke (mm)75CC999Cylinders3CO2 (g/km)114Standard Euro emissionsEuro 6Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantHeight1426mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4313mmWheelbase2637mmWidth1966mmWidth 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 weight1190 kg
Below MarketListed at £8,500 vs market average of £11,247 (-24%)
Market Low
£6,990
Market Average
£11,247
Market High
£19,990
Comparables
103 listings

Based on 103 comparable AUDI A3 listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£996/year
Mileage Impact
Slow Depreciation
£315/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Moderate Depreciation
£1,627/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £13,036 (£-4,536)
Mileage-predicted: £12,358 (£-3,858)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,311/yr | 10k mi/yr £-1,627/yr | 15k mi/yr £-1,942/yr

Based on 408 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

90
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?
24/25Good
Photos
60 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
30 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
19 specs provided (incl. 12 extended)
6/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
25/25Good
Clear pricing
£8,500
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£133.31/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
60 photos
5/5
Key selling points
30 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
19 specs provided
4/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
21/25Good
Page title tag
Audi A3 1.0 Tfsi 30 SE Technik Sportback 5dr Petro
4/4
Meta description
2018 Audi A3 SE Technik, Manual, In Black.....
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
97% of 74 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?
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
8715 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

3 KM Car Sales Ltd

Stanground, Peterborough PE2 8HE