Trends · data through August 2026

Gas & Auto trends in California

Iceflower tracks 5,115 stores from 1,579 gas & auto chains in California. Firestone Complete Auto Care grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Toyota and AutoZone.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
1,579
Tracked stores
5,115
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Firestone Complete Auto Care and Toyota sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Firestone Complete Auto Care logo Firestone Complete Auto Care ▲3 +17.6%
2 T Toyota - +15.2%
3 A AutoZone logo AutoZone - +12.6%
4 S Super Star Car Wash logo Super Star Car Wash ▲5 +12.6%
5 E Exxon logo Exxon ▲2 +11.5%
6 M Marathon logo Marathon ▲5 +11.3%
7 M Mossy Nissan ▲2 +9.8%
8 L Les Schwab Tire Center logo Les Schwab Tire Center ▲6 +8.8%
9 T Take 5 Oil Change logo Take 5 Oil Change ▲1 +8.7%
10 V Volkswagen logo Volkswagen ▲1 +8.6%
11 S Sparkling Image Car Wash ▲3 +7.8%
12 S Shell logo Shell - +5.7%
13 D Discount Tire logo Discount Tire ▲1 +5.4%
14 P Pep Boys logo Pep Boys ▲5 +5.1%
15 S Sinclair logo Sinclair ▲1 +4.6%

Store footprint

Store map

5,115 tracked store locations in California, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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