2018 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT — £9,494 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 28 April 2026 | Berkeley, Gloucestershire
£9,494
96,000 miles | Diesel | Manual
Listing Quality
89/100
Good
vs Market Average
-17%
Below Market
Value Retention
25/100
Steep Depreciation
Our Verdict
89 /100

This 2018 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT is listed at £9,494 by Alisons Automotive Group in Berkeley. It has 96,000 miles on the clock. At 17% below the market average of £11,409, this looks competitively priced based on 29 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £4,785/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2018
Make VOLKSWAGEN
Model PASSAT
Colour Black
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 96,000 miles
Engine 2L
Seats 5
CO2 114 g/km
Euro Status Euro 6
ULEZ Compliant Compliant
Monthly Payment £179.37/mo
Power 148 BHP
Torque 251 lbs/ft
Top Speed 135 mph
0-60 mph 8.9s
Cylinders 4
Gears 6
Combined MPG 52.3 mpg
Urban MPG 55.4 mpg
Extra Urban MPG 74.3 mpg
Length 4767mm
Width 2083mm
Height 1516mm
Wheelbase 2786mm
Kerb Weight 1505 kg
All Features & Equipment (33)
Top speed135 mph0 to 608.9 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)251Engine power (BHP)148Extra Urban (mpg)74.3Urban (mpg)55.4Combined (mpg)52.3Cylinders - bore (mm)81TransmissionManualNumber of gears6Cylinders - stroke (mm)96CC1,968Cylinders4CO2 (g/km)114Standard Euro emissionsEuro 6Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantHeight1516mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4767mmWheelbase2786mmWidth2083mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats5Fuel tank capacity66 litresGross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgMax towing weight (braked)kgMax towing weight (unbraked)kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight1505 kg
Below MarketListed at £9,494 vs market average of £11,409 (-17%)
Market Low
£5,779
Market Average
£11,409
Market High
£22,995
Comparables
29 listings

Based on 29 comparable VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT listings.

Age Depreciation
Moderate Depreciation
£1,805/year
Mileage Impact
Steep Depreciation
£1,490/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Steep Depreciation
£4,785/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £13,430 (£-3,936)
Mileage-predicted: £11,569 (£-2,075)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-3,295/yr | 10k mi/yr £-4,785/yr | 15k mi/yr £-6,276/yr

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

89
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?
22/25Good
Photos
14 photos
8/10
Features & key selling points
33 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
21 specs provided (incl. 14 extended)
6/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
25/25Good
Clear pricing
£9,494
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£179.37/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
14 photos
5/5
Key selling points
33 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
21 specs provided
4/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
Volkswagen Passat 2.0 TDI SE Business Euro 6 (s/S)
4/4
Meta description
2018 Volkswagen Passat SE Business, Manual, In Bla...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
91% of 22 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
7423 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

Alisons Automotive Group

Berkeley, Gloucestershire GL13 9ET