2016 Mercedes-Benz CLS — £27,495 Listing Review

Item: 2016 Mercedes-Benz CLS
Rating: 83
Author: Car-Search.ai

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 2 May 2026 | Seven Kings, Ilford

£27,495

62,431 miles | Petrol | Automatic | Saloon

Listing Quality

83/100

Good

vs Market Average

+39%

Above Market

Value Retention

10/100

Very Steep Depreciation

Our Verdict

83 /100

This 2016 Mercedes-Benz CLS is listed at £27,495 by WISE AUTO LTD in Seven Kings. It has 62,431 miles on the clock. At 39% above the market average of £19,770, this is priced on the higher side compared to 12 similar listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £5,992/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2016

Make Mercedes-Benz

Model CLS

Body Style Saloon

Colour Black

Fuel Type Petrol

Gearbox Automatic

Mileage 62,431 miles

Engine 3.5L

Seats 4

ULEZ Compliant TBC

All Features & Equipment (18)

0 to 60 secondsExtra Urban (mpg)Urban (mpg)Combined (mpg)TransmissionAutomaticCC2,098Ultra Low Emission ZoneTBCABS BrakesAir Bag DriverHeight inclusive of roof railsmmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats4Gross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkg

Above MarketListed at £27,495 vs market average of £19,770 (+39%)

Market Low

£8,911

Market Average

£19,770

Market High

£33,995

Comparables

12 listings

Based on 12 comparable Mercedes-Benz CLS listings.

Age Depreciation

Moderate Depreciation

£2,051/year

Mileage Impact

Steep Depreciation

£1,971/5k mi

Combined (10k mi/yr)

Very Steep Depreciation

£5,992/yr

This Vehicle vs Model

Age-predicted: £16,542 (+£10,953)

Mileage-predicted: £22,256 (+£5,239)

Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-4,021/yr | 10k mi/yr £-5,992/yr | 15k mi/yr £-7,963/yr

Based on 40 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

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

91 photos

10/10

Features & key selling points

18 listed

8/8

Technical specifications

7 specs provided

5/7

Competitiveness

How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?

21/25Good

Clear pricing

£27,495

8/8

Monthly payment shown

Not shown

0/4

Visual presentation

91 photos

5/5

Key selling points

18 features highlighted

4/4

Detailed specifications

7 specs provided

4/4

SEO Quality

Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML

22/25Good

Page title tag

Mercedes-Benz Cls Cls220d Blue Efficiency Amg Spor

4/4

Meta description

2016 Mercedes-Benz Cls Sport Amg, Automatic, In Bl...

4/4

Canonical URL

Present

3/3

Open Graph tags

Missing or incomplete

0/3

Image alt text

98% of 177 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

7456 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.