2018 VOLVO V40 — £32,000 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 1 May 2026 | Kitts Green, Birmingham
2018 VOLVO V40
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£32,000
51,800 miles | Petrol | Automatic | Hatchback
Listing Quality
72/100
Good
vs Market Average
+206%
Above Market
Value Retention
80/100
Holding Value
Our Verdict
72 /100

This 2018 VOLVO V40 is listed at £32,000 by Your Car Supermarket in Kitts Green. It has 51,800 miles on the clock. At 206% above the market average of £10,457, this is priced on the higher side compared to 27 similar listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £42/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2018
Make VOLVO
Model V40
Body Style Hatchback
Colour Black
Fuel Type Petrol
Gearbox Automatic
Mileage 51,800 miles
Engine 1.5L
Above MarketListed at £32,000 vs market average of £10,457 (+206%)
Market Low
£7,299
Market Average
£10,457
Market High
£13,200
Comparables
27 listings

Based on 27 comparable VOLVO V40 listings.

Age Depreciation
Holding Value
£313/year
Mileage Impact
Slight Appreciation
£135/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Holding Value
£42/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £11,596 (+£20,404)
Mileage-predicted: £12,988 (+£19,012)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-177/yr | 10k mi/yr £-42/yr | 15k mi/yr £94/yr

Based on 97 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

72
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?
15/25Average
Photos
80 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
0 listed
0/8
Technical specifications
6 specs provided
5/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
15/25Average
Clear pricing
£32,000
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
80 photos
5/5
Key selling points
0 features highlighted
0/4
Detailed specifications
6 specs provided
2/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
Volvo V40 1.5 T2 Gpf R-Design Pro Hatchback 5dr Pe
4/4
Meta description
2018 Volvo V40 R-Design Pro, Automatic, In Black.....
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
99% of 370 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
9118 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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Your Car Supermarket

Kitts Green, Birmingham B33 0LD