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Leading Auto Manufacturers & Parts Brands in AI Search in China

The same monthly sample, re-ranked using only ChatGPT answers.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Toyota leads AI search visibility in Auto Manufacturers & Parts on ChatGPT in China with a Goodie visibility score of 73.1, ahead of Acura (73.0) and Lexus (70.6). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 69.8, and a score above 64.0 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is jdpower.com at 5.3% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 5.9%.

33k prompts · 2.4m AI answers · 11.6m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Auto Manufacturers & Parts · ChatGPT
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
69.8
Half of the 10 ranked auto manufacturers & parts brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 69.8
Score to enter the top 10
64.0
Clearing 64.0 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 5.8 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
11.6
A typical answer names twelve brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 11.0
Citation mix
  • UGC 5%
  • Editorial 10%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 10%
  • Retail 2%
  • Other 72%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding auto manufacturers & parts answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
5.9%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
62/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
33k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.4m
214k in October · ▼ 16.1% vs September
Citations parsed
11.6m
1m in October · ▲ 14.0% vs September
Brands observed
260
10 ranked here · 250 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Auto Manufacturers & Parts, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Toyota
73.1
10.6%ChatGPT—67iseecars.com
02Acura
73.0
10.6%ChatGPT—55consumerreports.org
03Lexus
70.6
10.2%ChatGPT▲ 3.369iseecars.com
04Geely
70.0
10.1%ChatGPT▲ 6.757alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu
05BYD
69.8
10.1%ChatGPT—55alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu
06Michelin
69.7
10.1%ChatGPT—78performanceplustire.com
07Vredestein
69.2
10.0%ChatGPT—64consumerreports.org
08Subaru
67.5
9.8%ChatGPT—69iseecars.com
09Genesis
64.6
9.3%ChatGPT—73consumerreports.org
10Volkswagen
64.0
9.2%ChatGPT—30reddit.com
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Aug

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Auto Manufacturers & Parts
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01jdpower.com
5.3%
▼ 1.4
02michelin.com.cn
5.0%
—
03apnews.com
4.6%
▲ 3.9
04iseecars.com
3.8%
—
05consumerreports.org
3.4%
▼ 1.2
06iea.org
3.2%
▲ 0.5
07reddit.com
3.1%
—
08alibaba.com
3.1%
—
09iihs.org
3.0%
▲ 0.6
10euroncap.com
3.0%
▲ 4.1
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Aug, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Auto Manufacturers & Parts, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Electric vehicle brands gaining market share5436
02Tire manufacturers offering long tread life1528
03Luxury car brands with strong reliability2227
04Auto brands with strong resale value1825
05碰撞测试里,哪家车最安全?115
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Aug
Rising
Geelyscore 70.0
▲ 6.7
Lexusscore 70.6
▲ 3.3
Falling

No falling brands this month.

2 ranked brands scored in both Aug and OctIndustry avg ±5.0/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
4,622,021 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Auto Manufacturers & Parts, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States2.6M
02Canada986K
03United Kingdom346K
04Australia195K
05Egypt127K
06Germany102K
07Italy66K
08France53K
09Japan42K
10United Arab Emirates35K
11Saudi Arabia31K
12Singapore16K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Toyota leads Auto Manufacturers & Parts this edition with a visibility score of 73.1, ahead of Acura at 73.0.

jdpower.com is the most-cited source grounding auto manufacturers & parts answers, at roughly 5.3% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 5.9% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked auto manufacturers & parts brands is 69.8, and a score above 64.0 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Auto Manufacturers & Parts

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Toyota currently leads AI search visibility in auto manufacturers & parts with a Goodie visibility score of 73.1, measured across the tracked AI models.

jdpower.com is the most-cited source in auto manufacturers & parts AI answers, grounding roughly 5.3% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked auto manufacturers & parts brands is 69.8. A score above 64.0 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.