AI Visibility · Regional Scoreboard

Nissan AI Visibility Los Angeles Metro

Nissan dealers across Los Angeles

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 21 Nissan 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.

Nissan of Downtown LA leads with 21% share of voice (of every time AI named a Nissan dealer in the region) and is named in 87% of all answers. Nissan Of Mission Hills and Downey Nissan follow. The clearest gap is Nissan of Tustin, 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 Nissan shopping happens there - measured by its monthly search demand - so a strong showing in high-demand markets like Los Angeles and Van Nuys 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 Nissan 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. Nissan of Downtown LA - 21% share of voice, named in 87% of answers, named first 72% of the time; strongest sub-market: Westside.
  2. Nissan Of Mission Hills - 13% share of voice, named in 47% of answers, named first 10% of the time; strongest sub-market: San Fernando Valley.
  3. Downey Nissan - 11% share of voice, named in 49% of answers, named first 5% of the time; strongest sub-market: Gateway / Southeast.
  4. Cerritos Nissan - 10% share of voice, named in 42% of answers, named first 1% of the time; strongest sub-market: Gateway / Southeast.
  5. Glendale Nissan - 10% share of voice, named in 34% of answers, named first 4% of the time; strongest sub-market: Glendale / Verdugo.
  6. Nissan of Alhambra - 7% share of voice, named in 30% of answers, named first 20% of the time; strongest sub-market: San Gabriel Valley.
  7. Carson Nissan - 7% share of voice, named in 28% of answers, named first 22% of the time; strongest sub-market: South Bay.
  8. Nissan of Torrance - 5% share of voice, named in 23% of answers, named first 2% of the time; strongest sub-market: South Bay.
  9. Puente Hills Nissan - 5% share of voice, named in 21% of answers, named first 16% of the time; strongest sub-market: Central LA / Downtown.
  10. Gardena Nissan - 2% share of voice, named in 9% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: South Bay.
  11. El Monte Nissan - 2% share of voice, named in 9% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: San Gabriel Valley.
  12. Nissan of Orange - 2% share of voice, named in 7% of answers, named first 36% of the time; strongest sub-market: Gateway / Southeast.
  13. Nissan Van Nuys - 1% share of voice, named in 5% of answers, named first 19% of the time; strongest sub-market: San Fernando Valley.
  14. Nissan of Valencia - 1% share of voice, named in 4% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: San Fernando Valley.
  15. First Nissan of Simi Valley - 1% share of voice, named in 5% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Central LA / Downtown.
  16. Nissan of Costa Mesa - 1% share of voice, named in 5% of answers, named first 17% of the time; strongest sub-market: Central LA / Downtown.
  17. Bravo Nissan of Duarte - 0% share of voice, named in 1% of answers, named first 9% of the time; strongest sub-market: San Gabriel Valley.
  18. Nissan of Buena Park - 0% share of voice, named in 1% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Gateway / Southeast.
  19. Garden Grove Nissan - 0% share of voice, named in 0% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Gateway / Southeast.
  20. Nissan of Tustin - 0% share of voice, named in 0% of answers; strongest sub-market: Westside.

Who leads each sub-market, and where

  • Central LA / Downtown (population 3,820,914, 35,300 searches per month) - AI names Nissan of Downtown LA most.
  • San Fernando Valley (population 136,443, 1,740 searches per month) - AI names Nissan Of Mission Hills most.
  • Glendale / Verdugo (population 201,020, 950 searches per month) - AI names Glendale Nissan most.
  • South Bay (population 143,592, 950 searches per month) - AI names Nissan of Torrance most.
  • San Gabriel Valley (population 142,250, 890 searches per month) - AI names Nissan of Alhambra most.
  • Westside (population 93,220, 580 searches per month) - AI names Nissan of Downtown LA most.
  • Gateway / Southeast (population 49,975, 390 searches per month) - AI names Cerritos Nissan 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

  • Nissan Rogue - 7,610 searches per month
  • Nissan Altima - 4,990 searches per month
  • Nissan Sentra - 4,930 searches per month
  • Nissan Z - 4,160 searches per month
  • Nissan Kicks - 4,150 searches per month
  • Nissan Pathfinder - 3,400 searches per month
  • Nissan Frontier - 3,350 searches per month
  • Nissan Leaf - 2,880 searches per month
  • Nissan Armada - 2,190 searches per month
  • Nissan Ariya - 1,960 searches per month

Top Sources

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

  • dealerrater.com - 11.4% of citations
  • nissanusa.com - 9.4% of citations
  • cerritosnissan.com - 7.5% of citations
  • carfax.com - 6.3% of citations
  • glendalenissanla.com - 6.0% of citations
  • yelp.com - 5.6% of citations
  • nissanofvannuys.com - 5.1% of citations
  • cars.com - 3.7% of citations
  • downtownnissan.com - 3.2% of citations
  • nissanoftorrance.com - 3.0% of citations
  • carsonnissan.com - 3.0% of citations
  • nissanofmissionhills.com - 2.3% of citations

Regional Insights

AI gives shoppers a short list of 3 dealers. AI answers with actual dealership names 97.6% of the time and names only 3 dealers per answer. A dealer not on that list loses the shopper to one that is.

AI's information comes from review sites and forums, not dealer websites. dealerrater.com alone is cited more often than any dealer website.

Dealer ratings run far lower on Yelp than on Google. The tracked dealers average 4.4 stars on Google but only 3.2 on Yelp, and 6 of 19 score below 3.0 there. Yelp is one of AI's cited sources in this report, so a weak Yelp profile feeds directly into what AI reads.

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 - Los Angeles's most of all. A dealer's rank on its own city's list affects what AI tells shoppers there.

Los Angeles holds most of the demand - and no dealer has a firm lead. Los Angeles and Van Nuys together hold 91% of the region's shopping demand, yet in Los Angeles, the busiest market, the most-recommended dealer (Nissan of Downtown LA) takes only 23% of AI's dealer mentions. AI names a different leading dealer in 6 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
1Nissan of Downtown LAWestside87%
21%
72%
2Nissan Of Mission HillsSan Fernando Valley47%
13%
10%
3Downey NissanGateway / Southeast49%
11%
5%
4Cerritos NissanGateway / Southeast42%
10%
1%
5Glendale NissanGlendale / Verdugo34%
10%
4%
6Nissan of AlhambraSan Gabriel Valley30%
7%
20%
7Carson NissanSouth Bay28%
7%
22%
8Nissan of TorranceSouth Bay23%
5%
2%
9Puente Hills NissanCentral LA / Downtown21%
5%
16%
10Gardena NissanSouth Bay9%
2%
0%
11El Monte NissanSan Gabriel Valley9%
2%
0%
12Nissan of OrangeGateway / Southeast7%
2%
36%
13Nissan Van NuysSan Fernando Valley5%
1%
19%
14Nissan of ValenciaSan Fernando Valley4%
1%
0%
15First Nissan of Simi ValleyCentral LA / Downtown5%
1%
0%
16Nissan of Costa MesaCentral LA / Downtown5%
1%
17%
17Bravo Nissan of DuarteSan Gabriel Valley1%
0%
9%
18Nissan of Buena ParkGateway / Southeast1%
0%
0%
19Garden Grove NissanGateway / Southeast0%
0%
0%
20Nissan of TustinWestside0%
0%
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Showing the top 20 of the 21 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 Nissan dealer near [city]", "Nissan Rogue inventory near [city]", and "where to service a Nissan 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 Nissan dealership in the region's measured footprint is tracked and scored - 21 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, Los Angeles and Van Nuys together carry about 91% 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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