Metro by metro
The leading car dealer chains in every California metro area
Tracked car dealer chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. CarMax leads in 8 metro areas, Toyota in 4 metro areas, and BMW of Mountain View in 1 metro area. 6 chains lead at least one metro area. Against their share in California as a whole, Toyota stands out in 3 metro areas, CarMax in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Toyota
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
San Francisco, CA 0.8× · Riverside, CA 1.7× · San Diego, CA 1.7×
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CarMax
Relative #1 in Los Angeles, CA, 0.9× its share in California
Not enough tracked stores: Chico, CA · El Centro, CA · Hanford-Corcoran, CA · Merced, CA · Napa, CA · Redding, CA · Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA · Visalia, CA · Yuba City, CA
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Bakersfield-Delano, CA · Fresno, CA · Modesto, CA · Oxnard, CA · Sacramento, CA · Salinas, CA · San Jose, CA · San Luis Obispo, CA · Santa Maria, CA · Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA · Stockton-Lodi, CA · Vallejo, CA
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CarMax
#1 in 8 metro areas
Los Angeles, CA · San Francisco, CA · Riverside, CA · Sacramento, CA · Bakersfield-Delano, CA · Fresno, CA · Vallejo, CA · Modesto, CA
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Toyota
#1 in 4 metro areas
San Diego, CA · Oxnard, CA · Stockton-Lodi, CA · San Luis Obispo, CA
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BMW of Mountain View
#1 in San Jose, CA
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Hansel Auto Group
#1 in Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA
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Honda
#1 in Santa Maria, CA
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Victory Toyota of Brook Park
#1 in Salinas, CA
Not enough tracked stores: Chico, CA · El Centro, CA · Hanford-Corcoran, CA · Merced, CA · Napa, CA · Redding, CA · Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA · Visalia, CA · Yuba City, CA
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked car dealer chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to California compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in California as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in California and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of California is light gray. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked car dealer 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. Mazda and Ken Grody Ford sit in the high-growth half.
- CarMax
- Toyota
- Mossy Nissan
- Volkswagen
- Ken Grody Ford
- Mazda
- Ford
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
1,257 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 89 of the 1,257 stores (7%); 1,073 of the 1,109 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car dealers, against 7% across the United States.
- CarMax (32)
- Toyota (22)
- Mossy Nissan (6)
- Volkswagen (6)
- Ken Grody Ford (3)
- Mazda (4)
- Ford (8)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 CarMax 32
- 2 Toyota 22
- 3 Hyundai 13
- 4 Nissan 11
- 5 Honda 11
- 6 Ford 8
- 7 Volkswagen 6
- 8 Mossy Nissan 6
- 9 Chevrolet 6
- 10 Norm Reeves Honda 5
- 11 Kia 5
- 12 Mazda 4
- 13 Subaru 4
- 14 Ken Grody Ford 3
- 15 Culver City 3
- 16 Gosch Ford of Temecula 2
- 17 Riverside Honda 2
- 18 LA City Cars 2
- 19 Noah's Tires Shop 2
- 20 AutoNation Toyota 2
- 21 Pacific Auto Center 2
- 22 Spreen Honda 2
- 23 Team Mazda 2
- 24 Concord Mazda 2
- 25 Envision Toyota 2
- 26 AutoNation Honda 2
- 27 Auto City 2
- 28 Ventura Toyota 1
- 29 Honda of Serramonte 1
- 30 DCH Chrysler Dodge Jeep RAM FIAT 1
- 31 Quality Chevrolet 1
- 32 Penske Honda Ontario 1
- 33 AutoNation Subaru Carlsbad 1
- 34 Kearny Mesa Toyota 1
- 35 DCH Honda Of Oxnard 1
- 36 Riverside Kia 1
- 37 Concord Honda 1
- 38 Fairview Ford 1
- 39 Haddad KIA 1
- 40 Hayward Honda 1
- 41 AutoNation Honda Fremont 1
- 42 Serramonte Subaru 1
- 43 Merced Toyota 1
- 44 Antioch Toyota 1
- 45 Toyota of Anaheim 1
- 46 Jim Bone Kia 1
- 47 Land Rover San Diego 1
- 48 Concord Toyota 1
- 49 Lake Elsinore Honda 1
- 50 Livermore Lincoln 1
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