Competitor Intelligence · San Antonio, TX

Top 10 Car Dealerships in San Antonio, TX

DriveTime Used Cars, EchoPark Automotive San Antonio, and American Auto Brokers/gotTrucks lead the Google review race in San Antonio, Texas. If you operate a San Antonio dealership, these are the stores you compete against every time a buyer in the metro runs a search.

Review Leader · San Antonio, TX

DriveTime Used Cars

4.9
Rating
3,784
Reviews
Combined Google reviews
35,756
Average rating
4.64
Reviews held by the leader
5,495
Rated 4.8★ or higher
50%

The San Antonio, TX Top 10

Data as of May 9, 2026
  1. Rank1

    DriveTime Used Cars

    Used

    12540 I-35 Frontage Rd, Live Oak, TX 78233

    4.93,784 reviews·Score: 4.88
  2. Rank2

    EchoPark Automotive San Antonio

    Used

    5611 N Loop 1604 W, San Antonio, TX 78257

    4.84,446 reviews·Score: 4.79
  3. Rank3

    American Auto Brokers/gotTrucks

    Independent

    10750 Iota Dr, San Antonio, TX 78217

    4.83,434 reviews·Score: 4.79
  4. Rank4

    Dale's & Bartlett Motors

    Independent

    1426 SE Military Dr, San Antonio, TX 78214

    4.82,372 reviews·Score: 4.78
  5. Rank5

    Oso Grande Auto Sales

    Independent

    5407 Interstate 35 Access Rd, San Antonio, TX 78211

    4.81,454 reviews·Score: 4.77
  6. Rank6

    Cavender Cadillac

    Franchise

    7625 N Loop 1604 E, San Antonio, TX 78233

    4.62,269 reviews·Score: 4.59Cadillac
  7. Rank7

    Cavender Buick GMC West

    Franchise

    7400 W Loop 1604 N, San Antonio, TX 78250

    4.55,495 reviews·Score: 4.50BuickGMC
  8. Rank8

    Cavender Buick GMC

    Franchise

    17811 San Pedro Ave, San Antonio, TX 78232

    4.55,315 reviews·Score: 4.50BuickGMC
  9. Rank9

    Northside Honda

    Franchise

    9100 San Pedro Ave, San Antonio, TX 78216

    4.44,184 reviews·Score: 4.40Honda
  10. Rank10

    World Car Kia North

    Independent

    12115 I-35 bldg 1, San Antonio, TX 78233

    4.33,003 reviews·Score: 4.30
San Antonio, Texas Market Context

The San Antonio dealership review landscape

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

35,756
Combined Google reviews
across the top 10
4.64
Average rating
of the San Antonio top 10
5,495
Leader review count
held by DriveTime Used Cars
3.8×
Volume gap
leader vs. #10
Why This Matters

Reviews drive AI search visibility in Texas

50% of the top 10 in San Antonio 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 San Antonio, Texas.

AI search engines that cite dealerships by name
Google AI OverviewsChatGPTPerplexityGemini

A3 Brands is the automotive SEO agency in Texas that helps Texas dealerships close the review gap and outrank the stores ranked above.

Methodology

How the San Antonio, TX 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 San Antonio 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

Texas dealerships with fewer than 25 Google reviews, and listings outside the San Antonio metro trading area. We use the dealer-density centroid of each metro — not city limits — so dealerships in surrounding Texas suburbs that compete for San Antonio 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 San Antonio 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 Texas 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 San Antonio dealership ranking

The top three dealerships in San Antonio, Texas by Bayesian-weighted Google review score are DriveTime Used Cars, EchoPark Automotive San Antonio, and American Auto Brokers/gotTrucks. The full top 10 — and the review counts you would have to match to enter that list — is ranked above.

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

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