2016 VOLKSWAGEN POLO — £8,995 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 6 April 2026 | Gorgie, Edinburgh
£8,995
23,088 miles | Petrol | Manual | Hatchback
Listing Quality
82/100
Good
vs Market Average
-25%
Below Market
Value Retention
45/100
Moderate Depreciation
Our Verdict
82 /100

This 2016 VOLKSWAGEN POLO is listed at £8,995 by Fortune Motor Company in Gorgie. It has 23,088 miles on the clock. At 25% below the market average of £11,979, this looks competitively priced based on 25 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £2,003/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2016
Make VOLKSWAGEN
Model POLO
Body Style Hatchback
Colour Black
Fuel Type Petrol
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 23,088 miles
Engine 1.2L
All Features & Equipment (33)
Top speed114 mph0 to 6010.8 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)118Engine power (BHP)89Extra Urban (mpg)70.6Urban (mpg)47.1Combined (mpg)60.1Cylinders - bore (mm)71TransmissionManualNumber of gears5Cylinders - stroke (mm)76CC1,197Cylinders4CO2 (g/km)107NOx (mg/km)0Standard Euro emissionsEuro 6Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantHeight1462mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength3972mmWheelbase2470mmWidth1901mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats5Gross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgMax towing weight (braked)kgMax towing weight (unbraked)kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight1107 kg
Below MarketListed at £8,995 vs market average of £11,979 (-25%)
Market Low
£8,524
Market Average
£11,979
Market High
£16,490
Comparables
25 listings

Based on 25 comparable VOLKSWAGEN POLO listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£757/year
Mileage Impact
Moderate Depreciation
£623/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Moderate Depreciation
£2,003/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £9,011 (£-16)
Mileage-predicted: £14,235 (£-5,240)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,380/yr | 10k mi/yr £-2,003/yr | 15k mi/yr £-2,626/yr

Based on 389 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

82
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
22 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
33 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
6 specs provided
5/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
19/25Good
Clear pricing
£8,995
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
22 photos
5/5
Key selling points
33 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
6 specs provided
2/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
Volkswagen Polo 1.2 TSI Bluemotion Tech SE Design
4/4
Meta description
2016 Volkswagen Polo SE Design, Manual, In Black.....
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
96% of 47 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?
18/25Good
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
Generic div/span markup — harder for AI to parse
1/4
Content depth
5952 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

Fortune Motor Company

Gorgie, Edinburgh EH11 2RP