2017 Ford Focus — £8,479 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 17 April 2026 | Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
£8,479
147,987 miles | Diesel | Automatic | Hatchback
Listing Quality
36/100
Poor
vs Market Average
+203%
Above Market
Value Retention
80/100
Holding Value
Our Verdict
36 /100

This 2017 Ford Focus is listed at £8,479 by MF Motors in Peterborough. It has 147,987 miles on the clock. At 203% above the market average of £2,797, this is priced on the higher side compared to 3 similar listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £241/year in value. The listing quality is poor — limited photos and sparse specifications make it harder to assess this vehicle remotely.

Year 2017
Make Ford
Model Focus
Body Style Hatchback
Colour Blue
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Automatic
Mileage 147,987 miles
Engine 2L
Doors 5
Seats 5
CO2 119 g/km
Euro Status EURO 6
ULEZ Compliant Yes
Monthly Payment £197.13/mo
Above MarketListed at £8,479 vs market average of £2,797 (+203%)
Market Low
£2,500
Market Average
£2,797
Market High
£3,295
Comparables
3 listings

Based on 3 comparable Ford Focus listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£745/year
Mileage Impact
Strong Appreciation
£252/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Holding Value
£241/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £8,880 (£-401)
Mileage-predicted: £4,769 (+£3,710)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-493/yr | 10k mi/yr £-241/yr | 15k mi/yr £11/yr

Based on 523 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

36
Overall Listing Quality
Poor — significant gaps in information and optimisation.
Information & Buyer Appeal
Does this listing give buyers enough information to make a decision?
15/25Average
Photos
17 photos
8/10
Features & key selling points
0 listed
0/8
Technical specifications
9 specs provided
7/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
21/25Good
Clear pricing
£8,479
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£197.13/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
17 photos
5/5
Key selling points
0 features highlighted
0/4
Detailed specifications
9 specs provided
4/4
SEO Quality
Page HTML not captured — scores are estimated
0/25Poor
Page HTML
Not captured — cannot analyze
0/25
AI Discoverability
How findable is this listing by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other AI search engines?
0/25Poor
Page HTML
Not captured — cannot analyze
0/25
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

MF Motors

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE7 8JA