Top 9 Car Dealerships in San Francisco, CA
Premier Subaru of Fremont, Autobahn Motors, and Lexus of Serramonte lead the Google review race in San Francisco, California. If you operate a San Francisco dealership, these are the stores you compete against every time a buyer in the metro runs a search.
Premier Subaru of Fremont
- Combined Google reviews
- 31,592
- Average rating
- 4.40★
- Reviews held by the leader
- 5,507
- Rated 4.8★ or higher
- 0%
The San Francisco, CA Top 9
Data as of May 9, 2026- Rank1
Premier Subaru of Fremont
Franchise5601 Cushing Pkwy, Fremont, CA 94538
4.74,225 reviews·Score: 4.69Subaru - Rank2
Autobahn Motors
Independent700 Island Pkwy, Belmont, CA 94002
4.64,162 reviews·Score: 4.59 - Rank3
Lexus of Serramonte
Franchise700 Serramonte Blvd, Colma, CA 94014
4.63,318 reviews·Score: 4.59Lexus - Rank4
Mercedes-Benz of Oakland
Franchise3093-A Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611
4.61,909 reviews·Score: 4.59Mercedes-Benz - Rank5
Honda of Serramonte
Franchise485 Serramonte Blvd, Colma, CA 94014
4.54,804 reviews·Score: 4.50Honda - Rank6
One Toyota of Oakland
Franchise8181 Oakport St, Oakland, CA 94621
4.45,507 reviews·Score: 4.40Toyota - Rank7
Sunnyvale Volkswagen
Franchise1025 E El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
4.31,410 reviews·Score: 4.30Volkswagen - Rank8
San Leandro Chrysler Dodge Jeep RAM
Franchise1444 Marina Blvd Unit B, San Leandro, CA 94577
4.13,293 reviews·Score: 4.11CDJR - Rank9
Envision Honda of Milpitas
Franchise920 Thompson St, Milpitas, CA 95035
3.82,964 reviews·Score: 3.82Honda
The San Francisco dealership review landscape
San Francisco is one of the most competitive new- and used-car markets in California. If your store is outside the top 9, you are fighting against this review velocity for every "san francisco car dealer" search Google runs.
Reviews drive AI search visibility in California
Google and AI search engines cite the highest-rated stores by name when buyers ask about San Francisco, California. If your store is not on this list, you are not in the conversation.
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How the San Francisco, CA ranking is calculated
Combines star rating with review volume so a small San Francisco 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.
California dealerships with fewer than 25 Google reviews, and listings outside the San Francisco metro trading area. We use the dealer-density centroid of each metro — not city limits — so dealerships in surrounding California suburbs that compete for San Francisco 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 San Francisco metro radius we searched, or its Bayesian-weighted score didn't crack the top 9. None of these reflect on the dealership itself — review velocity is one signal among many, and closing the gap to the top 9 is exactly the work A3 Brands does for California 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 San Francisco dealership ranking
The top three dealerships in San Francisco, California by Bayesian-weighted Google review score are Premier Subaru of Fremont, Autobahn Motors, and Lexus of Serramonte. The full top 9 — and the review counts you would have to match to enter that list — is ranked above.
Each San Francisco, CA 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 Francisco, California. If your dealership is not on this list, you are not in the conversation buyers in San Francisco 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 California. 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 California dealerships are not in the top 9 — by definition, only 9 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 Francisco metro radius, or its Bayesian-weighted score did not place in the top 9 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 Francisco top 9 is exactly the work A3 Brands does for California dealership clients. The database refreshes quarterly, so stores can move into and out of the top 9 between snapshots as review velocity changes.
A San Francisco dealership can be missing for three reasons: it has fewer than 25 Google reviews, it sits outside the San Francisco metro trading area we searched, or its Bayesian-weighted score did not place in the top 9 against the competition. Note that the San Francisco list reflects the metro trading area — dealerships in surrounding California suburbs that compete for San Francisco 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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