2016 Mercedes-Benz A-CLASS — £8,999 Listing Review

Item: 2016 Mercedes-Benz A-CLASS
Rating: 76
Author: Car-Search.ai

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 16 April 2026 | Leicester

£8,999

76,397 miles | Petrol | Manual | Hatchback

Listing Quality

76/100

Good

vs Market Average

-22%

Below Market

Value Retention

65/100

Slow Depreciation

Our Verdict

76 /100

This 2016 Mercedes-Benz A-CLASS is listed at £8,999 by 777 Automotive Limited in Leicester. It has 76,397 miles on the clock. At 22% below the market average of £11,477, this looks competitively priced based on 156 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £1,473/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2016

Make Mercedes-Benz

Model A-CLASS

Body Style Hatchback

Colour Black

Fuel Type Petrol

Gearbox Manual

Mileage 76,397 miles

Engine 1.6L

Monthly Payment £211.65/mo

Below MarketListed at £8,999 vs market average of £11,477 (-22%)

Market Low

£6,995

Market Average

£11,477

Market High

£17,995

Comparables

156 listings

Based on 156 comparable Mercedes-Benz A-CLASS listings.

Age Depreciation

Slow Depreciation

£771/year

Mileage Impact

Slow Depreciation

£351/5k mi

Combined (10k mi/yr)

Slow Depreciation

£1,473/yr

This Vehicle vs Model

Age-predicted: £11,718 (£-2,719)

Mileage-predicted: £12,407 (£-3,408)

Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,122/yr | 10k mi/yr £-1,473/yr | 15k mi/yr £-1,824/yr

Based on 547 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

41 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

£8,999

8/8

Monthly payment shown

£211.65/mo

4/4

Visual presentation

41 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

Mercedes-Benz A-Class 1.6 A180 Sport Hatchback 5dr

4/4

Meta description

2016 Mercedes-Benz A-Class Sport, Manual, In Black...

4/4

Canonical URL

Present

3/3

Open Graph tags

Missing or incomplete

0/3

Image alt text

97% of 77 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

7508 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.