2018 FORD C-MAX — £10,295 Listing Review

Item: 2018 FORD C-MAX
Rating: 76
Author: Car-Search.ai

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 15 April 2026 | Little Sutton, Ellesmere Port

£10,295

27,065 miles | Diesel | Automatic | MPV

Listing Quality

76/100

Good

vs Market Average

+3%

Fair Price

Value Retention

65/100

Slow Depreciation

Our Verdict

76 /100

This 2018 FORD C-MAX is listed at £10,295 by Rainford Cars Ltd in Little Sutton. It has 27,065 miles on the clock. Priced in line with the market average of £10,006 based on 6 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £1,092/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2018

Make FORD

Model C-MAX

Body Style MPV

Colour Red

Fuel Type Diesel

Gearbox Automatic

Mileage 27,065 miles

Engine 1.5L

Monthly Payment £198.52/mo

At MarketListed at £10,295 vs market average of £10,006 (+3%)

Market Low

£8,499

Market Average

£10,006

Market High

£10,995

Comparables

6 listings

Based on 6 comparable FORD C-MAX listings.

Age Depreciation

Holding Value

£431/year

Mileage Impact

Slow Depreciation

£331/5k mi

Combined (10k mi/yr)

Slow Depreciation

£1,092/yr

This Vehicle vs Model

Age-predicted: £8,120 (+£2,175)

Mileage-predicted: £10,278 (+£17)

Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-762/yr | 10k mi/yr £-1,092/yr | 15k mi/yr £-1,423/yr

Based on 63 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?

15/25Average

Photos

45 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?

19/25Good

Clear pricing

£10,295

8/8

Monthly payment shown

£198.52/mo

4/4

Visual presentation

45 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

Ford C-Max 1.5 TDCI Zetec MPV 5dr Diesel Powershif

4/4

Meta description

2018 Ford C-Max Zetec, Automatic, In Red. AUTOTRAD...

4/4

Canonical URL

Present

3/3

Open Graph tags

Missing or incomplete

0/3

Image alt text

97% of 86 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

7563 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.