Competitor Intelligence · Minneapolis, MN

Top 10 Car Dealerships in Minneapolis, MN

Front Line Auto, Bellmobile Sales & Leasing, and Lexus of Wayzata lead the Google review race in Minneapolis, Minnesota. If you operate a Minneapolis dealership, these are the stores you compete against every time a buyer in the metro runs a search.

Review Leader · Minneapolis, MN

Front Line Auto

4.9
Rating
505
Reviews
Combined Google reviews
13,020
Average rating
4.90
Reviews held by the leader
7,795
Rated 4.8★ or higher
100%

The Minneapolis, MN Top 10

Data as of May 9, 2026
  1. Rank1

    Front Line Auto

    Independent

    6440 Flying Cloud Dr # 118, Eden Prairie, MN 55344

    4.9505 reviews·Score: 4.80
  2. Rank2

    Bellmobile Sales & Leasing

    Lease

    1714 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343

    5.0243 reviews·Score: 4.80
  3. Rank3

    Lexus of Wayzata

    Franchise

    16100 Wayzata Blvd, Wayzata, MN 55391

    4.87,795 reviews·Score: 4.79Lexus
  4. Rank4

    Right Buy Automotive

    Independent

    9125 Isanti St NE, Blaine, MN 55449

    5.0217 reviews·Score: 4.78
  5. Rank5

    MC Motors Used Car Dealer

    Independent

    6591 Concord Blvd, Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076

    5.0212 reviews·Score: 4.78
  6. Rank6

    DriveTime Used Cars

    Used

    1145 State Hwy 36 Service Rd, Maplewood, MN 55109

    4.81,635 reviews·Score: 4.77
  7. Rank7

    One Way Motors

    Independent

    2205 Hwy 13 W, Burnsville, MN 55337

    5.0200 reviews·Score: 4.77
  8. Rank8

    Walser Polar Mazda

    Franchise

    4095 Hwy 61 N, White Bear Lake, MN 55110

    4.81,018 reviews·Score: 4.76Mazda
  9. Rank9

    Lexdan Automotive Corporation

    Independent

    2610 Maplewood Dr, Maplewood, MN 55109

    4.8909 reviews·Score: 4.75
  10. Rank10

    webuyanycar.com

    Independent

    7132 Shady Oak Rd, Eden Prairie, MN 55344

    4.9286 reviews·Score: 4.74
Minneapolis, Minnesota Market Context

The Minneapolis dealership review landscape

Minneapolis is one of the most competitive new- and used-car markets in Minnesota. If your store is outside the top 10, you are fighting against this review velocity for every "minneapolis car dealer" search Google runs.

13,020
Combined Google reviews
across the top 10
4.90
Average rating
of the Minneapolis top 10
7,795
Leader review count
held by Front Line Auto
39.0×
Volume gap
leader vs. #10
Why This Matters

Reviews drive AI search visibility in Minnesota

100% of the top 10 in Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis, Minnesota.

AI search engines that cite dealerships by name
Google AI OverviewsChatGPTPerplexityGemini

Want to read more on closing the review gap? A3 Brands publishes a the automotive SEO agency playbook for dealership operators.

Methodology

How the Minneapolis, MN ranking is calculated

Bayesian-weighted score
(reviews × rating) + (100 × 4.3)
reviews + 100
4.3
Global average rating across car dealerships
100
Bayesian threshold (review-count weight)
What it balances

Combines star rating with review volume so a small Minneapolis 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.

What's excluded

Minnesota dealerships with fewer than 25 Google reviews, and listings outside the Minneapolis metro trading area. We use the dealer-density centroid of each metro — not city limits — so dealerships in surrounding Minnesota suburbs that compete for Minneapolis buyers are included. Insurance agencies, repair shops, and auto-service businesses miscategorized as car dealers are filtered out by name and category.

Data source & freshness

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.

Don't see your store ranked?

Three reasons that might be: your dealership has fewer than 25 Google reviews, sits outside the Minneapolis 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 Minnesota dealerships.

See where you rank

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

About the Minneapolis dealership ranking

The top three dealerships in Minneapolis, Minnesota by Bayesian-weighted Google review score are Front Line Auto, Bellmobile Sales & Leasing, and Lexus of Wayzata. The full top 10 — and the review counts you would have to match to enter that list — is ranked above.

Each Minneapolis, MN 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 Minneapolis, Minnesota. If your dealership is not on this list, you are not in the conversation buyers in Minneapolis 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 Minnesota. 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 Minnesota 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 Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis top 10 is exactly the work A3 Brands does for Minnesota dealership clients. The database refreshes quarterly, so stores can move into and out of the top 10 between snapshots as review velocity changes.

A Minneapolis dealership can be missing for three reasons: it has fewer than 25 Google reviews, it sits outside the Minneapolis metro trading area we searched, or its Bayesian-weighted score did not place in the top 10 against the competition. Note that the Minneapolis list reflects the metro trading area — dealerships in surrounding Minnesota suburbs that compete for Minneapolis 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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