2015 FORD S-MAX — £9,495 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 30 April 2026 | Plymouth
£9,495
48,696 miles | Petrol | Manual | MPV
Listing Quality
83/100
Good
vs Market Average
-25%
Below Market
Value Retention
45/100
Moderate Depreciation
Our Verdict
83 /100

This 2015 FORD S-MAX is listed at £9,495 by PTC Motor Company in Plymouth. It has 48,696 miles on the clock. At 25% below the market average of £12,642, this looks competitively priced based on 4 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £2,520/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2015
Make FORD
Model S-MAX
Body Style MPV
Colour Blue
Fuel Type Petrol
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 48,696 miles
Engine 1L
Seats 7
CO2 139 g/km
Euro Status Euro 5
ULEZ Compliant Non Compliant
Power 161 BHP
Torque 251 lbs/ft
Top Speed 127 mph
0-60 mph 9.5s
Cylinders 4
Gears 6
Combined MPG 53.3 mpg
Urban MPG 43.5 mpg
Extra Urban MPG 60.1 mpg
Length 4768mm
Width 2154mm
Height 1658mm
Wheelbase 2850mm
Kerb Weight 1690 kg
All Features & Equipment (33)
Top speed127 mph0 to 609.5 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)251Engine power (BHP)161Extra Urban (mpg)60.1Urban (mpg)43.5Combined (mpg)53.3Cylinders - bore (mm)85TransmissionManualNumber of gears6Cylinders - stroke (mm)88CC1,997Cylinders4CO2 (g/km)139NOx (mg/km)0Standard Euro emissionsEuro 5Ultra Low Emission ZoneNon CompliantHeight1658mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4768mmWheelbase2850mmWidth2154mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats7Gross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgMax towing weight (braked)kgMax towing weight (unbraked)kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight1690 kg
Below MarketListed at £9,495 vs market average of £12,642 (-25%)
Market Low
£10,100
Market Average
£12,642
Market High
£14,995
Comparables
4 listings

Based on 4 comparable FORD S-MAX listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£1,059/year
Mileage Impact
Moderate Depreciation
£731/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Moderate Depreciation
£2,520/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £8,513 (+£982)
Mileage-predicted: £13,579 (£-4,084)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,790/yr | 10k mi/yr £-2,520/yr | 15k mi/yr £-3,251/yr

Based on 49 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

83
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
13 photos
8/10
Features & key selling points
33 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
£9,495
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
13 photos
5/5
Key selling points
33 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
Ford S-Max 2.0 TDCI Titanium MPV 5dr Diesel Manual
4/4
Meta description
2015 Ford S-Max Titanium, Manual, In Black.....
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
89% of 19 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
7861 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 PTC Motor Company →

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About the Dealer

PTC Motor Company

Plymouth PL6 5DS