2016 BMW 5 SERIES — £3,493 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 28 April 2026 | Great Barford, Bedford
£3,493
117,000 miles | Petrol | Automatic | Estate
Listing Quality
85/100
Good
vs Market Average
-73%
Below Market
Value Retention
90/100
Slight Appreciation
Our Verdict
85 /100

This 2016 BMW 5 SERIES is listed at £3,493 by Affordable Car Centre in Great Barford. It has 117,000 miles on the clock. At 73% below the market average of £13,053, this looks competitively priced based on 8 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is gaining approximately £728/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2016
Make BMW
Model 5 SERIES
Body Style Estate
Colour Grey
Fuel Type Petrol
Gearbox Automatic
Mileage 117,000 miles
Engine 2L
Seats 5
CO2 123 g/km
Euro Status Euro 6
ULEZ Compliant Compliant
Power 187 BHP
Torque 295 lbs/ft
Top Speed 140 mph
0-60 mph 8.0s
Cylinders 4
Gears 8
Combined MPG 60.1 mpg
Urban MPG 51.4 mpg
Extra Urban MPG 67.3 mpg
Length 4907mm
Width 2102mm
Height 1488mm
Wheelbase 2968mm
Kerb Weight 1735 kg
All Features & Equipment (34)
Top speed140 mph0 to 608.0 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)295Engine power (BHP)187Extra Urban (mpg)67.3Urban (mpg)51.4Combined (mpg)60.1Cylinders - bore (mm)84TransmissionAutomaticNumber of gears8Cylinders - stroke (mm)90CC1,995Cylinders4CO2 (g/km)123NOx (mg/km)0Standard Euro emissionsEuro 6Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantHeight1488mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4907mmWheelbase2968mmWidth2102mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats5Fuel tank capacity70 litresGross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgMax towing weight (braked)kgMax towing weight (unbraked)kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight1735 kg
Below MarketListed at £3,493 vs market average of £13,053 (-73%)
Market Low
£5,995
Market Average
£13,053
Market High
£31,995
Comparables
8 listings

Based on 8 comparable BMW 5 SERIES listings.

Age Depreciation
Moderate Depreciation
£1,913/year
Mileage Impact
Strong Appreciation
£1,320/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Slight Appreciation
£728/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £14,858 (£-11,365)
Mileage-predicted: £11,503 (£-8,010)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-592/yr | 10k mi/yr £728/yr | 15k mi/yr £2,048/yr

Based on 144 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

85
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?
25/25Good
Photos
80 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
34 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
22 specs provided (incl. 14 extended)
7/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
21/25Good
Clear pricing
£3,493
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
80 photos
5/5
Key selling points
34 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
22 specs provided
4/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
BMW 5 Series 2.0 520d M Sport Touring Auto Euro 6
4/4
Meta description
2016 BMW 5 Series M Sport, Automatic, In Grey. 2 O...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
99% of 154 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?
17/25Average
Schema.org Vehicle markup
Vehicle/Car structured data found
6/6
Static HTML content
Some static content but may require JS for full data
2/5
Semantic HTML structure
Spec data in structured elements
3/4
Content depth
7351 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

Affordable Car Centre

Great Barford, Bedford MK44 3LH