2018 FORD TRANSIT — £16,000 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 3 May 2026 | Newton Abbot
£16,000
30,025 miles | Diesel | Manual | Minibus
Listing Quality
82/100
Good
vs Market Average
-24%
Below Market
Value Retention
45/100
Moderate Depreciation
Our Verdict
82 /100

This 2018 FORD TRANSIT is listed at £16,000 by Abbot Commercials Ltd in Newton Abbot. It has 30,025 miles on the clock. At 24% below the market average of £21,136, this looks competitively priced based on 80 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £1,987/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2018
Make FORD
Model TRANSIT
Body Style Minibus
Colour White
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 30,025 miles
Engine 2.2L
All Features & Equipment (49)
Engine torque (lbs/ft)258Engine power (BHP)123Extra Urban (mpg)43.5Urban (mpg)31.4Combined (mpg)38.2Cylinders - bore (mm)86TransmissionManualNumber of gears6Cylinders - stroke (mm)95CC2,198Cylinders4CO2 (g/km)196Standard Euro emissionsEuro 6Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliant2x12V Power Points16in Steel Wheels 6.5x16Auto Start-Stop SystemFoldable Power Door Mirrors (Heated)Metallic Body ColourPower Side StepHeight2674mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength6704mmWidth2126mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats17Gross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight2798 kgABS and Emergency Brake WarningAir Bag DriverAuto HeadlightsCentre Rear Seat BeltDriver Alert, EDCC (Electronic Dynamic Cornering Control)EDCC (Electronic Dynamic Cornering Control)Electronic Brake-Force Distribution (EBD)ESPFront Fog LampsHead Restraints - Front/RearHill Start AssistImmobiliserPower Assisted Steering (PAS)Remote Central LockingThird Brake LightTyre Inflator Kit
Below MarketListed at £16,000 vs market average of £21,136 (-24%)
Market Low
£1,995
Market Average
£21,136
Market High
£38,990
Comparables
80 listings

Based on 80 comparable FORD TRANSIT listings.

Age Depreciation
Holding Value
£43/year
Mileage Impact
Moderate Depreciation
£972/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Moderate Depreciation
£1,987/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £14,432 (+£1,568)
Mileage-predicted: £21,176 (£-5,176)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,015/yr | 10k mi/yr £-1,987/yr | 15k mi/yr £-2,959/yr

Based on 882 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

82
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
29 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
49 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
£16,000
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
29 photos
5/5
Key selling points
49 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
6 specs provided
2/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
Ford Transit 460 2.2 TDCI 125 Trend 17 Seat MINIbu
4/4
Meta description
2018 Ford Transit Trend, Manual, In White. AIR CON...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
97% of 60 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?
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
7015 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

Abbot Commercials Ltd

Newton Abbot TQ12 4PB