2018 FORD FOCUS — £3,500 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 16 April 2026 | Great Barford, Bedford
£3,500
110,000 miles | Petrol | Manual | Hatchback
Listing Quality
85/100
Good
vs Market Average
-38%
Below Market
Value Retention
45/100
Moderate Depreciation
Our Verdict
85 /100

This 2018 FORD FOCUS is listed at £3,500 by Affordable Car Centre in Great Barford. It has 110,000 miles on the clock. At 38% below the market average of £5,637, this looks competitively priced based on 44 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £1,512/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2018
Make FORD
Model FOCUS
Body Style Hatchback
Colour Blue
Fuel Type Petrol
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 110,000 miles
Engine 1L
Seats 5
CO2 107 g/km
Euro Status Euro 6
ULEZ Compliant Compliant
Power 123 BHP
Torque 125 lbs/ft
Top Speed 124 mph
0-60 mph 10.0s
Cylinders 3
Gears 6
Combined MPG 49.6 mpg
Urban MPG 47.9 mpg
Extra Urban MPG 68.9 mpg
Length 4378mm
Width 1979mm
Height 1452mm
Wheelbase 2700mm
Kerb Weight 1322 kg
All Features & Equipment (34)
Top speed124 mph0 to 6010.0 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)125Engine power (BHP)123Extra Urban (mpg)68.9Urban (mpg)47.9Combined (mpg)49.6Cylinders - bore (mm)72TransmissionManualNumber of gears6Cylinders - stroke (mm)82CC999Cylinders3CO2 (g/km)107NOx (mg/km)0Standard Euro emissionsEuro 6Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantHeight1452mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4378mmWheelbase2700mmWidth1979mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats5Fuel tank capacity52 litresGross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgMax towing weight (braked)kgMax towing weight (unbraked)kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight1322 kg
Below MarketListed at £3,500 vs market average of £5,637 (-38%)
Market Low
£3,240
Market Average
£5,637
Market High
£10,695
Comparables
44 listings

Based on 44 comparable FORD FOCUS listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£740/year
Mileage Impact
Slow Depreciation
£386/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Moderate Depreciation
£1,512/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £9,682 (£-6,182)
Mileage-predicted: £4,519 (£-1,019)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,126/yr | 10k mi/yr £-1,512/yr | 15k mi/yr £-1,898/yr

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

85
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?
25/25Good
Photos
60 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
34 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
22 specs provided (incl. 14 extended)
7/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
21/25Good
Clear pricing
£3,500
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
60 photos
5/5
Key selling points
34 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
22 specs provided
4/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
2018 Ford Focus 1.0t Ecoboost Titanium Euro 6 (s/S
4/4
Meta description
2018 Ford Focus Titanium, Manual, In Blue.....
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
98% of 114 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?
17/25Average
Schema.org Vehicle markup
Vehicle/Car structured data found
6/6
Static HTML content
Some static content but may require JS for full data
2/5
Semantic HTML structure
Spec data in structured elements
3/4
Content depth
7365 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

Affordable Car Centre

Great Barford, Bedford MK44 3LH