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Leading Auto Manufacturers & Parts Brands in AI Search in the United Kingdom

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 United Kingdom with a Goodie visibility score of 80.7, ahead of Mercedes-Benz (80.7) and Honda (79.5). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 78.0, and a score above 73.5 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is youtube.com at 6.8% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 1.4%.

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
78.0
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 76.4
Score to enter the top 10
73.5
Clearing 73.5 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 4.5 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
8.6
A typical answer names nine brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 6.7
Citation mix
  • UGC 4%
  • Editorial 2%
  • Video 4%
  • Reference 10%
  • Retail 1%
  • Other 79%
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
1.4%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
66/100
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
80.7
10.4%Perplexity▼ 6.478tireagent.com
02Mercedes-Benz
80.7
10.4%Perplexity—58youtube.com
03Honda
79.5
10.2%Perplexity—62caredge.com
04Subaru
78.3
10.1%Perplexity▼ 7.268caredge.com
05Continental
78.1
10.0%Perplexity—62tireagent.com
06BYD
77.9
10.0%Perplexity—61caredge.com
07Lexus
77.2
9.9%Perplexity▼ 10.177youtube.com
08Mazda
77.1
9.9%Perplexity▼ 2.271youtube.com
09BMW
74.9
9.6%Perplexity—55youtube.com
10Goodyear
73.5
9.5%Perplexity▼ 3.972tireagent.com
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
6.8%
—
02apple.com
5.7%
—
03cambridge.org
4.8%
—
04collinsdictionary.com
3.8%
—
05dictionary.com
3.8%
—
06merriam-webster.com
3.8%
—
07performanceplustire.com
3.7%
—
08caredge.com
3.5%
—
09usatoday.com
3.2%
—
10iea.org
3.2%
—
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
01Luxury car brands with strong reliability1045
02Tire manufacturers offering long tread life1544
03Which car brands rank highest for safety?2234
04Auto brands with strong resale value1634
05Electric vehicle brands gaining market share2829
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
Lexusscore 77.2
▼ 10.1
Subaruscore 78.3
▼ 7.2
Michelinscore 80.7
▼ 6.4
5 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±5.9/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 80.7, ahead of Mercedes-Benz at 80.7.

youtube.com is the most-cited source grounding auto manufacturers & parts answers, at roughly 6.8% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 1.4% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked auto manufacturers & parts brands is 78.0, and a score above 73.5 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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Michelin currently leads AI search visibility in auto manufacturers & parts with a Goodie visibility score of 80.7, measured across the tracked AI models.

youtube.com is the most-cited source in auto manufacturers & parts AI answers, grounding roughly 6.8% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked auto manufacturers & parts brands is 78.0. A score above 73.5 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.