2009 SKODA OCTAVIA — £2,495 Listing Review

Item: 2009 SKODA OCTAVIA
Rating: 72
Author: Car-Search.ai

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 28 April 2026 | Heysham, Morecambe

£2,495

126,336 miles | Diesel | Manual | Hatchback

Listing Quality

72/100

Good

vs Market Average

-59%

Below Market

Value Retention

45/100

Moderate Depreciation

Our Verdict

72 /100

This 2009 SKODA OCTAVIA is listed at £2,495 by Central Car And Van Sales Ltd in Heysham. It has 126,336 miles on the clock. At 59% below the market average of £6,075, this looks competitively priced based on 4 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £2,460/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2009

Make SKODA

Model OCTAVIA

Body Style Hatchback

Colour Green

Fuel Type Diesel

Gearbox Manual

Mileage 126,336 miles

Engine 1.6L

Below MarketListed at £2,495 vs market average of £6,075 (-59%)

Market Low

£3,316

Market Average

£6,075

Market High

£11,995

Comparables

4 listings

Based on 4 comparable SKODA OCTAVIA listings.

Age Depreciation

Slow Depreciation

£985/year

Mileage Impact

Moderate Depreciation

£737/5k mi

Combined (10k mi/yr)

Moderate Depreciation

£2,460/yr

This Vehicle vs Model

Age-predicted: £5,316 (£-2,821)

Mileage-predicted: £6,447 (£-3,952)

Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,723/yr | 10k mi/yr £-2,460/yr | 15k mi/yr £-3,198/yr

Based on 135 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

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?

15/25Average

Photos

34 photos

10/10

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?

15/25Average

Clear pricing

£2,495

8/8

Monthly payment shown

Not shown

0/4

Visual presentation

34 photos

5/5

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

Skoda Octavia 1.6 TDI Elegance Hatchback 5dr Diese

4/4

Meta description

2009 Skoda Octavia Elegance, Manual, In Green. P/S...

4/4

Canonical URL

Present

3/3

Open Graph tags

Missing or incomplete

0/3

Image alt text

94% of 64 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

10353 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.