2016 FORD S-MAX — £8,495 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 30 April 2026 | Upton, Pontefract
£8,495
77,600 miles | Diesel | Manual | MPV
Listing Quality
69/100
Average
vs Market Average
-17%
Below Market
Value Retention
45/100
Moderate Depreciation
Our Verdict
69 /100

This 2016 FORD S-MAX is listed at £8,495 by RDA Car Sales in Upton. It has 77,600 miles on the clock. At 17% below the market average of £10,204, this looks competitively priced based on 16 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £2,779/year in value. The listing quality is average — it could benefit from more photos or detailed specifications.

Year 2016
Make FORD
Model S-MAX
Body Style MPV
Colour Grey
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 77,600 miles
Engine 2L
Monthly Payment £170.81/mo
Below MarketListed at £8,495 vs market average of £10,204 (-17%)
Market Low
£4,979
Market Average
£10,204
Market High
£15,500
Comparables
16 listings

Based on 16 comparable FORD S-MAX listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£1,289/year
Mileage Impact
Moderate Depreciation
£745/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Moderate Depreciation
£2,779/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £9,564 (£-1,069)
Mileage-predicted: £10,493 (£-1,998)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-2,034/yr | 10k mi/yr £-2,779/yr | 15k mi/yr £-3,524/yr

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

69
Overall Listing Quality
Average — some areas could be improved.
Information & Buyer Appeal
Does this listing give buyers enough information to make a decision?
10/25Average
Photos
7 photos
5/10
Features & key selling points
0 listed
0/8
Technical specifications
6 specs provided
5/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
17/25Average
Clear pricing
£8,495
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£170.81/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
7 photos
3/5
Key selling points
0 features highlighted
0/4
Detailed specifications
6 specs provided
2/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
Ford S-Max 2.0 TDCI Zetec MPV 5dr Diesel Manual Eu
4/4
Meta description
2016 Ford S-Max Zetec, Manual, In Grey.....
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
68% 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?
20/25Good
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
Spec data in structured elements
3/4
Content depth
7397 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

RDA Car Sales

Upton, Pontefract WF9 1JJ