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Honda AI Visibility Chicago Metro

Honda dealers across Chicago

Regional report · 7 sub-markets
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Prepared August 2026Prepared by CarGenius
Overview

Executive summary

We measured how often AI assistants (ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overview) name each of the region's 26 Honda dealers when shoppers ask where to find, buy, and service - city by city. Here is who is winning AI visibility today, and where the gaps are.

Honda of Downtown Chicago leads with 12% share of voice (of every time AI named a Honda dealer in the region) and is named in 78% of all answers. McGrath City Honda and Valley Honda follow. The clearest gap is Honda City Chicago, which AI names less often than its nearby shopper demand would suggest.

How to read this report. This draws on answers from ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overview. Dealers are never named in the questions, so every dealer is measured the same way. Cities are not counted equally: each city counts toward the regional score in proportion to how much Honda shopping happens there - measured by its monthly search demand - so a strong showing in high-demand markets like Chicago and Aurora moves a dealer's regional standing much more than the same showing in a small one. Every city's own results appear in the sub-market table below. The full method is at the end of this report.

The regional leaderboard

Who AI recommends most across the region. Share of voice: of every time AI named a Honda dealer in the region, how often it named this one. AI visibility: how often AI names the dealer at all. Named first: how often it is the very first dealer named.

  1. Honda of Downtown Chicago - 12% share of voice, named in 78% of answers, named first 41% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  2. McGrath City Honda - 9% share of voice, named in 60% of answers, named first 3% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  3. Valley Honda - 9% share of voice, named in 54% of answers, named first 57% of the time; strongest sub-market: Aurora.
  4. Gerald Honda of Countryside - 7% share of voice, named in 52% of answers, named first 3% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  5. Honda Superstore Of Lisle - 7% share of voice, named in 48% of answers, named first 13% of the time; strongest sub-market: Naperville.
  6. Victory Honda Chicago Northside - 7% share of voice, named in 56% of answers, named first 14% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  7. Honda City Chicago - 6% share of voice, named in 45% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  8. Muller Honda - 6% share of voice, named in 50% of answers, named first 4% of the time; strongest sub-market: Waukegan.
  9. Muller Honda of Gurnee - 4% share of voice, named in 35% of answers, named first 1% of the time; strongest sub-market: Waukegan.
  10. Schaumburg Honda Automobiles - 4% share of voice, named in 38% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Elgin.
  11. Mcgrath Honda Of St. Charles - 4% share of voice, named in 30% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Aurora.
  12. AutoNation Honda O'Hare - 3% share of voice, named in 31% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  13. Community Honda Of Orland Park - 3% share of voice, named in 31% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Joliet.
  14. Motor Werks Honda - 3% share of voice, named in 30% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Elgin.
  15. Ed Napleton Honda in Oak Lawn - 3% share of voice, named in 30% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Joliet.
  16. Napleton's River Oaks Honda - 2% share of voice, named in 24% of answers, named first 1% of the time; strongest sub-market: Hammond.
  17. McGrath Honda of Elgin - 2% share of voice, named in 16% of answers, named first 10% of the time; strongest sub-market: Elgin.
  18. Honda On Grand - 2% share of voice, named in 26% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Naperville.
  19. Gerald Honda of Matteson - 2% share of voice, named in 18% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Joliet.
  20. Honda Libertyville - 2% share of voice, named in 12% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Waukegan.

Who leads each sub-market, and where

  • Chicago (population 2,664,452, 43,600 searches per month) - AI names Honda of Downtown Chicago most.
  • Aurora (population 200,661, 2,270 searches per month) - AI names Valley Honda most.
  • Naperville (population 147,100, 1,960 searches per month) - AI names Valley Honda most.
  • Joliet (population 147,861, 1,760 searches per month) - AI names Valley Honda most.
  • Elgin (population 112,111, 1,620 searches per month) - AI names McGrath Honda of Elgin most.
  • Waukegan (population 88,475, 920 searches per month) - AI names Muller Honda most.
  • Hammond (population 77,614, 820 searches per month) - AI names Victory Honda Highland most.

Bubble area is proportional to monthly search demand; the number keys each sub-market to the table. Small dots mark the tracked dealers' locations. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

What the region is searching for

  • Honda Civic - 12,370 searches per month
  • Honda CR-V - 11,910 searches per month
  • Honda Accord - 8,050 searches per month
  • Honda Pilot - 7,930 searches per month
  • Honda Odyssey - 4,440 searches per month
  • Honda Passport - 4,230 searches per month
  • Honda Ridgeline - 2,830 searches per month
  • Honda HR-V - 1,190 searches per month

Top Sources

The websites AI cited most when answering shopper questions across the region, as a share of all citations:

  • google.com - 11.6% of citations
  • valleyhonda.com - 9.9% of citations
  • dealerrater.com - 7.3% of citations
  • hondaofjoliet.com - 5.1% of citations
  • caredge.com - 5.1% of citations
  • mcgrathhondaelgin.com - 4.5% of citations
  • reddit.com - 4.3% of citations
  • cars.com - 3.3% of citations
  • carfax.com - 3.1% of citations
  • motorwerkshonda.com - 2.7% of citations
  • hondaoflisle.com - 2.6% of citations
  • yelp.com - 2.6% of citations

Regional Insights

AI gives shoppers a short list of 3 to 10 dealers. AI answers with actual dealership names 99.1% of the time and names only 3 to 10 dealers per answer. A dealer not on that list loses the shopper to one that is.

AI reads this region's own Reddit discussions. The most-cited discussion is r/ChicagoSuburbs's "What Honda dealers in greater Chicagoland area will give the best deals?", and 40% of the Reddit discussions AI cites come from this region's own communities. Complaint threads about specific stores are read too.

City "best dealership" lists feed AI's answers. Sites like Yelp publish a "Top 10 Best dealerships" page for each city, and AI cites them - Elgin's most of all. A dealer's rank on its own city's list affects what AI tells shoppers there.

Chicago holds most of the demand - and no dealer has a firm lead. Chicago and Aurora together hold 87% of the region's shopping demand, yet in Chicago, the busiest market, the most-recommended dealer (Honda of Downtown Chicago) takes only 14% of AI's dealer mentions. AI names a different leading dealer in 5 of the 7 local areas.

Regional footprint

Who leads each sub-market, and where

The dealer AI names most in each sub-market. Each sub-market is measured at its anchor city - shown with its population - chosen to represent that part of the region; the anchors together span the metro's major population centers. On the map, each anchor's bubble is sized by its monthly shopper search demand, so larger circles are the markets with more search activity.

National footprint

The 25 metros, coast to coast

Each bubble is one of America's 25 biggest metro areas, sized by monthly shopper search demand in its anchor city and numbered by metro rank. The table that follows names the dealer AI recommends most in each.

Market demand

Where the nation shops

Monthly brand and model searches in each metro's anchor city - the demand AI answers compete for. Search demand weights and sizes the markets in this report; it is not a sales figure.

Market demand

What the region is searching for

How many shoppers near the region search for each model every month. This is the demand AI answers compete for, and it sets how much each city counts toward the scores. Search demand weights the cities in this report; it is not a sales figure.

Metro leaderboard

The National 25 - who AI recommends, metro by metro

The dealer AI assistants recommend most in each of the nation's 25 biggest metros, measured with identical non-branded Find / Buy / Service questions in each metro's anchor city.

How to read this. Share of voice: of every time AI named a dealer in this metro, how often it named this one. AI visibility: how often AI names the dealer at all. Named first: how often it is the very first dealer named - kept separate from visibility, as always. Bars are scaled to a 50% share.

Regional leaderboard

The regional leaderboard

Who AI recommends most across the region. Share of voice is the headline: out of every time AI named a dealer, how often it named this one. AI visibility is how often AI names the dealer at all, and named first is how often it is the very first dealer named - a dealer can be named often yet rarely first, so we keep these separate. Cities with more shopper demand count for more.

#DealerStrongest sub-marketAI visibilityShare of voiceNamed first
1Honda of Downtown ChicagoChicago78%
12%
41%
2McGrath City HondaChicago60%
9%
3%
3Valley HondaAurora54%
9%
57%
4Gerald Honda of CountrysideChicago52%
7%
3%
5Honda Superstore Of LisleNaperville48%
7%
13%
6Victory Honda Chicago NorthsideChicago56%
7%
14%
7Honda City ChicagoChicago45%
6%
0%
8Muller HondaWaukegan50%
6%
4%
9Muller Honda of GurneeWaukegan35%
4%
1%
10Schaumburg Honda AutomobilesElgin38%
4%
0%
11Mcgrath Honda Of St. CharlesAurora30%
4%
0%
12AutoNation Honda O'HareChicago31%
3%
0%
13Community Honda Of Orland ParkJoliet31%
3%
0%
14Motor Werks HondaElgin30%
3%
0%
15Ed Napleton Honda in Oak LawnJoliet30%
3%
0%
16Napleton's River Oaks HondaHammond24%
2%
1%
17McGrath Honda of ElginElgin16%
2%
10%
18Honda On GrandNaperville26%
2%
0%
19Gerald Honda of MattesonJoliet18%
2%
0%
20Honda LibertyvilleWaukegan12%
2%
0%
Showing the top 20 of the 26 dealers measured; every dealer is measured and scored the same way.
Winning patterns

The winners are not who you'd expect

The two things dealers invest in as reputation - store size and Google rating - do not separate the AI leaders from the field. Most metros are led by a store that is not the biggest in its market, winning under its own local name.

Where AI's winners rank by store size. Every metro's dealers, ranked by Google review count; the groups below show where each metro's AI leader falls in that size order.

Dealer scorecard

Dealer ranking scorecard

Read each grade cell as two numbers: a bold 0-100 grade, and in grey the share of voice it comes from. The grade is relative - the region's strongest dealer scores 100 and every other dealer is measured against it. Find, Buy and Service are graded on their own and count equally toward the Weighted overall. "Weighted" means busier cities count for more: each city's result is scaled by its monthly search demand before the cities are combined, so how a dealer does where the shoppers are matters most.

AI sources

Top Sources

The websites AI cited most when answering shopper questions across the region - each shown as its share of all the citations AI made. Getting listed and well-reviewed on the sources that rank highest here is how a dealer gets into AI answers.

AI sources

What AI reads, nationally

Store size and ratings do not decide who AI recommends. The clearest national pattern is what AI reads: the same few sources appear in metro after metro. Each website is shown as its share of all the citations AI made across the 25 measured metros. Getting listed and well-reviewed on the sources that rank highest here is how a dealer gets into AI answers.

Market opportunity

Most metros are still up for grabs

The small number next to each metro is the leader's share of voice divided by the runner-up's - 1.0x means the leader and runner-up are tied.

Contested - the runner-up is within striking distance Held - the leader is comfortably ahead Bubble size = market size (monthly searches)

Leader's share of voice

Of every time AI named a dealer in that metro, the percentage that went to the metro's #1 dealer.

Runner-up's share of voice

The same measure for the #2 dealer. The closer the two shares, the closer the race; a leader can never sit below the dashed line, only above it.

Share of voice = a dealer's AI mentions ÷ all dealers' AI mentions in its metro
Striking distance = the runner-up holds at least the leader's share ÷ 1.2
Market opportunity

Share of Voice vs Share of Demand

This chart plots each dealer's Share of Voice (up) against its Share of Demand (across). The dashed line is break-even, where the two are equal. Below it, a dealer's Share of Demand is larger than its Share of Voice - the clearest gaps to close. Bubbles are sized by Google review count.

At or above its opportunity Below its opportunity (a gap) Bubble size = Google review count

Share of Voice

When AI assistants recommend dealers in this region, the percentage of those recommendations that go to this dealer.

Share of Demand

This dealer's slice of the region's shoppers, based on distance: each town's shoppers count toward the stores nearest them, and busier towns count for more.

Share of voice = a dealer's AI mentions ÷ all dealers' AI mentions
Share of demand = a dealer's nearby demand ÷ all dealers' nearby demand
Regional insights

Regional Insights

These patterns stand out when the region's answers are read together. Each one is computed from the measured runs behind this report.

National insights

National insights

Beyond the headline story, these patterns stand out when all the metros are read together. Each one is computed from the measured runs - per-metro results are directional, but these cross-metro patterns rest on the full national sample.

Recommended actions

What To Do

The patterns in this report are national, but the actions they point to are local - and none of them requires being the biggest store in the market. Five places to start, each grounded in what this measurement found.

Methodology

Methodology

We asked non-dealer branded questions - for example "best Honda dealer near [city]", "Honda Civic inventory near [city]", and "where to service a Honda near [city]" - against ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overview, city by city, and recorded which dealers each answer named and in what order. Dealers are never named in the questions, so every dealer in the region is measured the same way and the leaderboard reflects who AI brings up on its own. Search demand comes from Google search volume for in-market shopping terms by model and city; it weights each city and is not a sales figure. Every confirmed Honda dealership in the region's measured footprint is tracked and scored - 26 dealers in this report. The leaderboard and scorecard tables show the top 20 by share of voice.

Position is reported only as "named first". How often AI names a dealer and how early it names them are separate measurements, and this report keeps them separate. Because the weighting follows measured demand, Chicago and Aurora together carry about 87% of the regional score; every city's own results are shown in the sub-market table. Search demand: Google search volume. AI visibility: live queries to ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overview. Dealer ratings: Google Business Profile and Yelp.

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