2021 BMW 3 SERIES — £43,500 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 25 April 2026 | Dunfermline
£43,500
31,935 miles | Automatic | Estate
Listing Quality
84/100
Good
vs Market Average
+70%
Above Market
Value Retention
25/100
Steep Depreciation
Our Verdict
84 /100

This 2021 BMW 3 SERIES is listed at £43,500 by Simpson Motors Dunfermline in Dunfermline. It has 31,935 miles on the clock. At 70% above the market average of £25,621, this is priced on the higher side compared to 69 similar listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £3,625/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2021
Make BMW
Model 3 SERIES
Body Style Estate
Colour Black
Gearbox Automatic
Mileage 31,935 miles
Engine 3L
Seats 5
CO2 142 g/km
Euro Status Euro 6
ULEZ Compliant TBC
Power 282 BHP
Torque 479 lbs/ft
Top Speed 155 mph
0-60 mph 5.5s
Cylinders 6
Gears 8
Combined MPG 52.3 mpg
Length 4709mm
Width 1827mm
Height 1440mm
Wheelbase 2851mm
Kerb Weight 1770 kg
All Features & Equipment (39)
Top speed155 mph0 to 605.5 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)479Engine power (BHP)282Combined (mpg)52.3Cylinders - bore (mm)84TransmissionAutomaticNumber of gears8Cylinders - stroke (mm)90CC2,993Cylinders6CO2 (g/km)142Standard Euro emissionsEuro 6Ultra Low Emission ZoneTBCAmbient Lighting with Welcome Light CarpetSeat Heating for Driver and Front Passenger19in Alloy Wheels - M Light Double Spoke - 791M Bicolour Jet Black with Mixed Tyres and Runflat TyresM Sport Exterior StylingM Sport Pro PackageRun Flat TyresSun Protection GlazingM Sport Pro Package £2,500Sun Protection Glazing £320Black Sapphire £695Total value of factory fitted extras £3,515Height1440mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4709mmWheelbase2851mmWidth1827mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats5Gross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight1770 kg
Above MarketListed at £43,500 vs market average of £25,621 (+70%)
Market Low
£16,825
Market Average
£25,621
Market High
£37,449
Comparables
69 listings

Based on 69 comparable BMW 3 SERIES listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£1,424/year
Mileage Impact
Moderate Depreciation
£1,101/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Steep Depreciation
£3,625/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £22,425 (+£21,075)
Mileage-predicted: £25,163 (+£18,337)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-2,525/yr | 10k mi/yr £-3,625/yr | 15k mi/yr £-4,726/yr

Based on 429 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

84
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?
24/25Good
Photos
59 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
39 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
19 specs provided (incl. 12 extended)
6/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
21/25Good
Clear pricing
£43,500
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
59 photos
5/5
Key selling points
39 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
19 specs provided
4/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
BMW 3 Series 3.0 330d Mht M Sport Touring 5dr Dies
4/4
Meta description
2021 BMW 3 Series M Sport, Automatic, In Black. AM...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
98% of 112 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
7080 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

Simpson Motors Dunfermline

Dunfermline KY12 9AS