AI Visibility · Regional Scoreboard

Regional AI Report

Toyota dealers across Chicago

Regional report · 7 sub-markets
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VISIBILITY
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Prepared July 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 29 Toyota 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.

McGrath Elmhurst Toyota leads with 9% share of voice (of every time AI named a Toyota dealer in the region) and is named in 63% of all answers. Toyota of Downtown Chicago and St Charles Toyota follow. The clearest gap is Toyota On Western, 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 Toyota 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 Toyota 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. McGrath Elmhurst Toyota - 9% share of voice, named in 63% of answers, named first 24% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  2. Toyota of Downtown Chicago - 9% share of voice, named in 63% of answers, named first 16% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  3. St Charles Toyota - 8% share of voice, named in 45% of answers, named first 22% of the time; strongest sub-market: Elgin.
  4. Chicago Northside Toyota - 7% share of voice, named in 51% of answers, named first 42% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  5. Toyota of Naperville - 7% share of voice, named in 52% of answers, named first 29% of the time; strongest sub-market: Naperville.
  6. Toyota On Western - 6% share of voice, named in 49% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  7. Oak Lawn Toyota - 5% share of voice, named in 44% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  8. Oakbrook Toyota - 4% share of voice, named in 41% of answers, named first 5% of the time; strongest sub-market: Naperville.
  9. Continental Toyota - 4% share of voice, named in 37% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Naperville.
  10. Toyota of Lincolnwood - 4% share of voice, named in 38% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  11. Victory Toyota of Midtown - 4% share of voice, named in 38% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  12. Bredemann Toyota - 4% share of voice, named in 37% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Chicago.
  13. Advantage Toyota of River Oaks - 3% share of voice, named in 29% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Hammond.
  14. Schaumburg Toyota - 3% share of voice, named in 32% of answers, named first 14% of the time; strongest sub-market: Elgin.
  15. Pauly Toyota - 3% share of voice, named in 19% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Elgin.
  16. Romeoville Toyota - 3% share of voice, named in 22% of answers, named first 21% of the time; strongest sub-market: Joliet.
  17. Lombard Toyota - 3% share of voice, named in 34% of answers, named first 14% of the time; strongest sub-market: Naperville.
  18. Elgin Toyota - 3% share of voice, named in 27% of answers, named first 17% of the time; strongest sub-market: Elgin.
  19. Toyota on Edens - 2% share of voice, named in 23% of answers, named first 0% of the time; strongest sub-market: Waukegan.
  20. Orland Toyota - 2% share of voice, named in 17% of answers, named first 17% of the time; strongest sub-market: Joliet.

Who leads each sub-market, and where

  • Chicago (population 2,664,452, 60,900 searches per month) - AI names McGrath Elmhurst Toyota most.
  • Aurora (population 200,661, 2,650 searches per month) - AI names Toyota of Naperville most.
  • Naperville (population 147,100, 2,540 searches per month) - AI names Toyota of Naperville most.
  • Joliet (population 147,861, 2,350 searches per month) - AI names Romeoville Toyota most.
  • Elgin (population 112,111, 2,020 searches per month) - AI names Elgin Toyota most.
  • Waukegan (population 88,475, 1,210 searches per month) - AI names Classic Toyota most.
  • Hammond (population 77,614, 1,150 searches per month) - AI names Team Toyota 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

  • Toyota Camry - 11,830 searches per month
  • Toyota RAV4 - 11,820 searches per month
  • Toyota Highlander - 9,730 searches per month
  • Toyota Corolla - 9,700 searches per month
  • Toyota Tacoma - 6,480 searches per month
  • Toyota 4Runner - 6,400 searches per month
  • Toyota Sienna - 6,370 searches per month
  • Toyota Tundra - 3,560 searches per month
  • Toyota Corolla Cross - 3,470 searches per month
  • Toyota Prius - 3,460 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 - 14.7% of citations
  • reddit.com - 8.5% of citations
  • toyota.com - 6.9% of citations
  • dealerrater.com - 6.7% of citations
  • romeovilletoyota.com - 4.5% of citations
  • caredge.com - 4.2% of citations
  • yelp.com - 3.5% of citations
  • elgintoyota.com - 3.4% of citations
  • toyotaofnaperville.com - 3.1% of citations
  • lombardtoyota.com - 2.8% of citations
  • carfax.com - 2.7% of citations
  • classicdirecttoyota.com - 2.7% of citations

Regional Insights

AI gives shoppers a short list of 3 to 9 dealers. AI answers with actual dealership names 99.4% of the time and names only 3 to 9 dealers per answer. A dealer not on that list loses the shopper to one that is.

The most Google reviews does not mean the most AI recommendations. Elgin Toyota has the region's most Google reviews (9,961) yet ranks 18th of 29 on this leaderboard, while St Charles Toyota (1,288 reviews) ranks 3rd.

AI's information comes from review sites and forums, not dealer websites. reddit.com alone is cited more often than any dealer website. The most-cited discussion is r/ChicagoSuburbs's "What Toyota dealers in greater Chicagoland area will give the best deals?", and 73% of the Reddit discussions AI cites come from this region's own communities.

Dealer ratings run far lower on Yelp than on Google. The tracked dealers average 4.6 stars on Google but only 2.6 on Yelp, and 8 of 10 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.

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 (McGrath Elmhurst Toyota) takes only 10% 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
1McGrath Elmhurst ToyotaChicago63%
9%
24%
2Toyota of Downtown ChicagoChicago63%
9%
16%
3St Charles ToyotaElgin45%
8%
22%
4Chicago Northside ToyotaChicago51%
7%
42%
5Toyota of NapervilleNaperville52%
7%
29%
6Toyota On WesternChicago49%
6%
0%
7Oak Lawn ToyotaChicago44%
5%
0%
8Oakbrook ToyotaNaperville41%
4%
5%
9Continental ToyotaNaperville37%
4%
0%
10Toyota of LincolnwoodChicago38%
4%
0%
11Victory Toyota of MidtownChicago38%
4%
0%
12Bredemann ToyotaChicago37%
4%
0%
13Advantage Toyota of River OaksHammond29%
3%
0%
14Schaumburg ToyotaElgin32%
3%
14%
15Pauly ToyotaElgin19%
3%
0%
16Romeoville ToyotaJoliet22%
3%
21%
17Lombard ToyotaNaperville34%
3%
14%
18Elgin ToyotaElgin27%
3%
17%
19Toyota on EdensWaukegan23%
2%
0%
20Orland ToyotaJoliet17%
2%
17%
Showing the top 20 of the 29 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. Sources are ranked by how many of the 25 measured metros have them among their ten most-cited. A source that shows up coast to coast shapes every market at once.

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 Toyota dealer near [city]", "Toyota Camry inventory near [city]", and "where to service a Toyota 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 Toyota dealership in the region's measured footprint is tracked and scored - 29 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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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.
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