2011 BMW 3 SERIES — £6,999 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 24 April 2026 | Tonteg, Pontypridd
£6,999
59,664 miles | Diesel | Manual
Listing Quality
72/100
Good
vs Market Average
-30%
Below Market
Value Retention
10/100
Very Steep Depreciation
Our Verdict
72 /100

This 2011 BMW 3 SERIES is listed at £6,999 by SBM SMARTBUY MOTORS TONTEG in Tonteg. It has 59,664 miles on the clock. At 30% below the market average of £9,951, this looks competitively priced based on 18 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £5,197/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2011
Make BMW
Model 3 SERIES
Colour Blue
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 59,664 miles
Monthly Payment £206.47/mo
Below MarketListed at £6,999 vs market average of £9,951 (-30%)
Market Low
£5,979
Market Average
£9,951
Market High
£18,995
Comparables
18 listings

Based on 18 comparable BMW 3 SERIES listings.

Age Depreciation
Moderate Depreciation
£1,678/year
Mileage Impact
Steep Depreciation
£1,759/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Very Steep Depreciation
£5,197/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £8,661 (£-1,662)
Mileage-predicted: £19,250 (£-12,251)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-3,438/yr | 10k mi/yr £-5,197/yr | 15k mi/yr £-6,956/yr

Based on 429 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?
11/25Average
Photos
18 photos
8/10
Features & key selling points
0 listed
0/8
Technical specifications
4 specs provided
3/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
19/25Good
Clear pricing
£6,999
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£206.47/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
18 photos
5/5
Key selling points
0 features highlighted
0/4
Detailed specifications
4 specs provided
2/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
BMW 3 Series 2.0 320d M Sport Convertible 2dr Dies
4/4
Meta description
2011 BMW 3 Series M Sport, Manual, In Blue. LOW MI...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
78% of 50 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
6869 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.

View original listing at SBM SMARTBUY MOTORS TONTEG →

Looking for a BMW 3 SERIES?

Search 50,000+ cars from UK dealers with our free AI-powered search engine

Search Now — Free

About the Dealer

SBM SMARTBUY MOTORS TONTEG

Tonteg, Pontypridd CF38 1PW