2018 FORD KUGA — £8,700 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 30 April 2026 | Preston
£8,700
80,965 miles | Petrol | Manual | SUV
Listing Quality
90/100
Good
vs Market Average
-9%
Below Market
Value Retention
45/100
Moderate Depreciation
Our Verdict
90 /100

This 2018 FORD KUGA is listed at £8,700 by KIRKHAM PART EXCHANGE CENTRE LTD in Preston. It has 80,965 miles on the clock. At 9% below the market average of £9,604, this looks competitively priced based on 87 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £1,705/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2018
Make FORD
Model KUGA
Body Style SUV
Colour Grey
Fuel Type Petrol
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 80,965 miles
Engine 1.5L
Seats 5
CO2 145 g/km
Euro Status Euro 6
ULEZ Compliant Compliant
Monthly Payment £202.28/mo
Power 148 BHP
Torque 177 lbs/ft
Top Speed 121 mph
0-60 mph 9.7s
Cylinders 3
Gears 6
Combined MPG 44.8 mpg
Urban MPG 35.8 mpg
Extra Urban MPG 52.3 mpg
Length 4535mm
Width 2086mm
Height 1744mm
Wheelbase 2690mm
Kerb Weight 1504 kg
All Features & Equipment (33)
Top speed121 mph0 to 609.7 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)177Engine power (BHP)148Extra Urban (mpg)52.3Urban (mpg)35.8Combined (mpg)44.8Cylinders - bore (mm)79TransmissionManualNumber of gears6Cylinders - stroke (mm)76CC1,496Cylinders3CO2 (g/km)145NOx (mg/km)0Standard Euro emissionsEuro 6Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantHeight1744mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4535mmWheelbase2690mmWidth2086mmWidth 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 weight1504 kg
Below MarketListed at £8,700 vs market average of £9,604 (-9%)
Market Low
£5,500
Market Average
£9,604
Market High
£16,494
Comparables
87 listings

Based on 87 comparable FORD KUGA listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£807/year
Mileage Impact
Slow Depreciation
£449/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Moderate Depreciation
£1,705/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £11,547 (£-2,847)
Mileage-predicted: £9,952 (£-1,252)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,256/yr | 10k mi/yr £-1,705/yr | 15k mi/yr £-2,154/yr

Based on 358 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?
23/25Good
Photos
11 photos
8/10
Features & key selling points
33 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?
25/25Good
Clear pricing
£8,700
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£202.28/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
11 photos
5/5
Key selling points
33 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
Ford Kuga 1.5t Ecoboost St-Line X Suv 5dr Petrol M
4/4
Meta description
2018 Ford Kuga St-Line X, Manual, In Grey. 12 MONT...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
89% of 27 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
7099 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

KIRKHAM PART EXCHANGE CENTRE LTD

Preston PR4 2RE