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Leading Auto Manufacturers & Parts Brands in AI Search in Japan

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Michelin leads AI search visibility in Auto Manufacturers & Parts on Perplexity in Japan with a Goodie visibility score of 80.2, ahead of Lexus (80.1) and Geely (78.7). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 77.7, and a score above 75.1 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is youtube.com at 6.0% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 1.9%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Auto Manufacturers & Parts · Perplexity
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
77.7
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 77.8
Score to enter the top 10
75.1
Clearing 75.1 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 2.6 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
8.8
A typical answer names nine brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 6.5
Citation mix
  • UGC 5%
  • Editorial 2%
  • Video 4%
  • Reference 6%
  • Retail 2%
  • Other 81%
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
1.9%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
67/100
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
01Michelin
80.2
10.3%Perplexity▼ 4.673tireagent.com
02Lexus
80.1
10.3%Perplexity▼ 5.474iseecars.com
03Geely
78.7
10.1%Perplexity▲ 2.447caredge.com
04Continental
78.6
10.1%Perplexity▼ 3.867tireagent.com
05Volvo
77.8
10.0%Perplexity—61consumerreports.org
06Toyota
77.6
10.0%Perplexity—72caredge.com
07Goodyear
77.2
9.9%Perplexity—69tireagent.com
08Honda
76.8
9.9%Perplexity—56caredge.com
09BYD
76.3
9.8%Perplexity—76caredge.com
10Genesis
75.1
9.6%Perplexity—73consumerreports.org
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Auto Manufacturers & Parts
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01youtube.com
6.0%
—
02autoblog.com
5.0%
—
03coxautoinc.com
4.2%
—
04usatoday.com
4.2%
—
05jalopnik.com
3.5%
—
06slashgear.com
3.3%
▲ 2.3
07aba-j.or.jp
3.3%
—
08caredge.com
3.2%
▲ 1.4
09reddit.com
3.2%
—
10consumerreports.org
3.0%
▲ 8.2
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, 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 share3240
02Auto brands with strong resale value2138
03Which car brands rank highest for safety?3336
04Tire manufacturers offering long tread life1634
05衝突試験で一番安全な車はどれ?58
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Geelyscore 78.7
▲ 2.4
Falling
Lexusscore 80.1
▼ 5.4
Michelinscore 80.2
▼ 4.6
Continentalscore 78.6
▼ 3.8
4 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±4.1/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
136,113 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Auto Manufacturers & Parts, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States103K
02Canada13K
03United Kingdom10K
04Australia3K
05Egypt2K
06Germany2K
07Italy1K
08Japan783
09United Arab Emirates540
10France440
11Saudi Arabia438
12Singapore233
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Michelin leads Auto Manufacturers & Parts this edition with a visibility score of 80.2, ahead of Lexus at 80.1.

youtube.com is the most-cited source grounding auto manufacturers & parts answers, at roughly 6.0% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 1.9% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked auto manufacturers & parts brands is 77.7, and a score above 75.1 reaches the industry top ten.

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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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Michelin currently leads AI search visibility in auto manufacturers & parts with a Goodie visibility score of 80.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

youtube.com is the most-cited source in auto manufacturers & parts AI answers, grounding roughly 6.0% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked auto manufacturers & parts brands is 77.7. A score above 75.1 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.