Top 10 Car Dealerships in Detroit, MI
NASA Auto Sales, Julian Auto Sales, and JENNA AUTO SALES INC lead the Google review race in Detroit, Michigan. If you operate a Detroit dealership, these are the stores you compete against every time a buyer in the metro runs a search.
NASA Auto Sales
- Combined Google reviews
- 6,081
- Average rating
- 4.88★
- Reviews held by the leader
- 2,185
- Rated 4.8★ or higher
- 100%
The Detroit, MI Top 10
Data as of May 9, 2026- Rank1
NASA Auto Sales
Independent9000 Livernois, Detroit, MI 48204
5.0349 reviews·Score: 4.84 - Rank2
Julian Auto Sales
Independent5785 E Eight Mile Rd #2845, Warren, MI 48091
4.9594 reviews·Score: 4.81 - Rank3
JENNA AUTO SALES INC
Independent29535 Gratiot Ave, Roseville, MI 48066
4.9497 reviews·Score: 4.80 - Rank4
PRIME MOTORZ
Independent23644 Ryan Rd, Warren, MI 48091
4.9471 reviews·Score: 4.79 - Rank5
DriveTime Used Cars
Used10725 Telegraph Rd, Taylor, MI 48180
4.82,185 reviews·Score: 4.78 - Rank6
Best Of Michigan Auto Sales
Independent17020 8 Mile Rd, Detroit, MI 48205, United States
4.9365 reviews·Score: 4.77 - Rank7
Quattro Motors
Independent24820 Plymouth Rd #1, Redford Township, MI 48239
4.8796 reviews·Score: 4.74 - Rank8
The Creative Mobility Group
Independent32217 Stephenson Hwy, Madison Heights, MI 48071
4.9262 reviews·Score: 4.73 - Rank9
Extreme Car Center Inc
Independent17101 Telegraph Rd, Detroit, MI 48219
4.9239 reviews·Score: 4.72 - Rank10
Sky Auto Sales
Independent19439 Joy Rd, Detroit, MI 48228
4.8323 reviews·Score: 4.68
The Detroit dealership review landscape
Detroit is one of the most competitive new- and used-car markets in Michigan. If your store is outside the top 10, you are fighting against this review velocity for every "detroit car dealer" search Google runs.
Reviews drive AI search visibility in Michigan
100% of the top 10 in Detroit already hold a 4.8-star rating or higher. In a market this dense, simply being "good" is no longer enough — you have to be measurably best to be cited by name when AI search engines answer questions about Detroit, Michigan.
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How the Detroit, MI ranking is calculated
Combines star rating with review volume so a small Detroit store with a few perfect reviews does not outrank a high-volume dealership, and a mega-store with thousands of mediocre reviews does not outrank a smaller, consistently excellent one.
Michigan dealerships with fewer than 25 Google reviews, and listings outside the Detroit metro trading area. We use the dealer-density centroid of each metro — not city limits — so dealerships in surrounding Michigan suburbs that compete for Detroit buyers are included. Insurance agencies, repair shops, and auto-service businesses miscategorized as car dealers are filtered out by name and category.
Pulled from Google Business Profile via the DataForSEO Business Listings API. The snapshot above was captured on 2026-05-09 and is refreshed quarterly. Verify live numbers on each store's Google profile before making decisions on this data.
Three reasons that might be: your dealership has fewer than 25 Google reviews, sits outside the Detroit metro radius we searched, or its Bayesian-weighted score didn't crack the top 10. None of these reflect on the dealership itself — review velocity is one signal among many, and closing the gap to the top 10 is exactly the work A3 Brands does for Michigan dealerships.
Disclosure: This data is sourced from each dealership's public Google Business Profile, accessed via the DataForSEO Business Listings API under license. Dealerships shown here have not been contacted, paid, or sponsored — inclusion is based entirely on public review data, not on any business relationship with A3 Brands. To request a correction, flag a data error, or have your dealership reviewed for removal, email info@a3brands.com.
About the Detroit dealership ranking
The top three dealerships in Detroit, Michigan by Bayesian-weighted Google review score are NASA Auto Sales, Julian Auto Sales, and JENNA AUTO SALES INC. The full top 10 — and the review counts you would have to match to enter that list — is ranked above.
Each Detroit, MI dealership receives a Bayesian-weighted score that combines its Google star rating and review volume. The formula is (reviews × rating + 100 × 4.3) / (reviews + 100), where 4.3 is the global average star rating across car dealerships. This balances small high-rated stores against large high-volume ones.
Google ranks dealerships in the local pack and Google Maps results using review count and rating as primary signals. AI search engines — Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini — increasingly cite the highest-rated stores by name when answering questions about Detroit, Michigan. If your dealership is not on this list, you are not in the conversation buyers in Detroit are having.
Quarterly. Star ratings and review counts shift slowly, so a quarterly refresh keeps the list current without churn from week-to-week noise. The data above was last refreshed 2026-05-09.
A3 Brands is an automotive SEO agency that works with dealerships across the United States, including Michigan. This ranking is based purely on public Google review data — no dealership pays to be included or excluded, and no editorial weighting is applied.
Most Michigan dealerships are not in the top 10 — by definition, only 10 stores per metro can be. If your dealership is not ranked, it is for one of three reasons: it has fewer than 25 Google reviews, it sits outside the Detroit metro radius, or its Bayesian-weighted score did not place in the top 10 against the local competition. None of these are signals that your store is underperforming overall — review velocity is one signal among many, and closing the gap to the Detroit top 10 is exactly the work A3 Brands does for Michigan dealership clients. The database refreshes quarterly, so stores can move into and out of the top 10 between snapshots as review velocity changes.
A Detroit dealership can be missing for three reasons: it has fewer than 25 Google reviews, it sits outside the Detroit metro trading area we searched, or its Bayesian-weighted score did not place in the top 10 against the competition. Note that the Detroit list reflects the metro trading area — dealerships in surrounding Michigan suburbs that compete for Detroit buyers are included, while listings far outside the metro are excluded even if they technically share a postal city or state.
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