2018 FORD TRANSIT CONNECT — £7,995 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 20 April 2026 | Chatham
£7,995
108,000 miles | Diesel | Manual | Panel Van
Listing Quality
82/100
Good
vs Market Average
-22%
Below Market
Value Retention
80/100
Holding Value
Our Verdict
82 /100

This 2018 FORD TRANSIT CONNECT is listed at £7,995 by Clairmont Car & Commercial Ltd in Chatham. It has 108,000 miles on the clock. At 22% below the market average of £10,243, this looks competitively priced based on 14 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is gaining approximately £72/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2018
Make FORD
Model TRANSIT CONNECT
Body Style Panel Van
Colour White
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 108,000 miles
Engine 1.5L
All Features & Equipment (57)
Top speed100 mphEngine torque (lbs/ft)177Engine torque (RPM)320Engine power (BHP)99Engine torque (NM)2,000Extra Urban (mpg)62.8Urban (mpg)56.5Combined (mpg)60.1CamshaftDOHCCylinders - bore (mm)84TransmissionManualNumber of gears6Cylinder layoutIN-LINECylinders - stroke (mm)90CC1,498Cylinders4Noise Level dB(A)2,700CO2 (g/km)123NOx (mg/km)0Standard Euro emissionsEURO 4Ultra Low Emission ZoneNon Compliant2-Speed Variable Intermittent Front WipersBulkhead - Full SteelCourtesy Lights - Front Dome Light with 2 Map LightsDoor Handles - Interior - BlackEasy Clean Load FloorGearshift Knob - PolyurethaneLoad Box LightPlastic Cargo Floor LinerSeat Pack 4Single Side Load Door - KerbsideSteering Wheel - 4 Spoke PU with Black ShellsStorage Box - Instrument PanelBumper - Front Body ColourBumper - Rear Self-Colour with Body Colour End-CapsFront Lip SpoilerFront and Rear Towing HooksLiftgate - Cargo Door Handle - Self ColourPower Door Mirrors - HeatedWide Bodyside Mouldings - Self ColourHeight1828mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4825mmWheelbase3062mmWidth2137mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up)603 litresLuggage capacity (seats down)1773 litresNumber of seats2Fuel tank capacity60 litresGross vehicle weight kgMax loading weight533kgMax towing weight (braked)1350kgMax towing weight (unbraked)750kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb)10.8 metresMax roof loadkgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metres
Below MarketListed at £7,995 vs market average of £10,243 (-22%)
Market Low
£5,800
Market Average
£10,243
Market High
£23,944
Comparables
14 listings

Based on 14 comparable FORD TRANSIT CONNECT listings.

Age Depreciation
Holding Value
£398/year
Mileage Impact
Slight Appreciation
£235/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Holding Value
£72/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £10,055 (£-2,060)
Mileage-predicted: £8,271 (£-276)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-163/yr | 10k mi/yr £72/yr | 15k mi/yr £308/yr

Based on 95 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
41 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
57 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
£7,995
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
41 photos
5/5
Key selling points
57 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
Ford Transit Connect 1.5l 210 Trend TDCI 0D 100 BH
4/4
Meta description
2018 Ford Transit Connect 210 Trend TDCI, Manual, ...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
96% of 83 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
7046 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

Clairmont Car & Commercial Ltd

Chatham ME5 7BA