Competitor Intelligence · Seattle, WA

Top 10 Car Dealerships in Seattle, WA

Quality Auto Center, Top Motors, and Auto 206 Inc. lead the Google review race in Seattle, Washington. If you operate a Seattle dealership, these are the stores you compete against every time a buyer in the metro runs a search.

Review Leader · Seattle, WA

Quality Auto Center

4.8
Rating
1,485
Reviews
Combined Google reviews
10,945
Average rating
4.77
Reviews held by the leader
2,704
Rated 4.8★ or higher
60%

The Seattle, WA Top 10

Data as of May 9, 2026
  1. Rank1

    Quality Auto Center

    Independent

    20420 Hwy 99, Lynnwood, WA 98036

    4.81,485 reviews·Score: 4.77
  2. Rank2

    Top Motors

    Independent

    23410 Hwy 99, Edmonds, WA 98026

    5.0199 reviews·Score: 4.77
  3. Rank3

    Auto 206 Inc.

    Independent

    18110 E Valley Hwy, Kent, WA 98032

    4.8572 reviews·Score: 4.73
  4. Rank4

    Enterprise Car Sales

    Used

    14135 Aurora Ave N, Seattle, WA 98133

    4.8518 reviews·Score: 4.72
  5. Rank5

    Kingsman Auto Sales

    Independent

    22002 Pacific Hwy S, Des Moines, WA 98198, United States

    4.8360 reviews·Score: 4.69
  6. Rank6

    Rairdon Auto Group

    Independent

    12828 NE 124th St, Kirkland, WA 98034

    4.72,704 reviews·Score: 4.69
  7. Rank7

    Brotherton Buick GMC

    Franchise

    215 SW 12th St, Renton, WA 98057

    4.7947 reviews·Score: 4.66BuickGMC
  8. Rank8

    Lexus of Seattle

    Franchise

    20300 Hwy 99, Lynnwood, WA 98036

    4.62,156 reviews·Score: 4.59Lexus
  9. Rank9

    Halo Motors

    Independent

    13635 NE 8th St #102, Bellevue, WA 98005

    4.991 reviews·Score: 4.59
  10. Rank10

    Acura of Seattle

    Franchise

    301 Baker Blvd, Seattle, WA 98188

    4.61,913 reviews·Score: 4.59Acura
Seattle, Washington Market Context

The Seattle dealership review landscape

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

10,945
Combined Google reviews
across the top 10
4.77
Average rating
of the Seattle top 10
2,704
Leader review count
held by Quality Auto Center
29.7×
Volume gap
leader vs. #10
Why This Matters

Reviews drive AI search visibility in Washington

60% of the top 10 in Seattle 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 Seattle, Washington.

AI search engines that cite dealerships by name
Google AI OverviewsChatGPTPerplexityGemini

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

Methodology

How the Seattle, WA 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 Seattle 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

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

The top three dealerships in Seattle, Washington by Bayesian-weighted Google review score are Quality Auto Center, Top Motors, and Auto 206 Inc.. The full top 10 — and the review counts you would have to match to enter that list — is ranked above.

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

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