Used Car Dealers
AI recommendation signal analysis across 984 domains and 11 buyer personas in Used Car Dealers, led by carmax.com as the most LLM-recommended domain.
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Compare channels at a glance
See which domains win each discovery channel, and where a brand is strong in one but missing from another. Use the over- and under-performer tables to find channels where competitors hold an edge you can close, or gaps you can take first.
Where the numbers come from
LLM, Fanout, and Organic columns use a rank-weighted score: a domain at position 1 counts for more than one at position 10, summed across every query run. AI Search is a plain citation count because Google's AI Overviews carry no rank data.
What's on this page
Side-by-side rankings for LLM recommendations, web-search fanout, Google's AI Overviews, and organic results, plus an aggregate view and per-channel over/under-performer callouts.
LLM vs Fanout vs AI Search vs Organic
Compare recommendation patterns for Used Car Dealers across all personas across four channels side by side: pick a model for LLM and Fanout, toggle Google/Bing for Organic. AI Search has no model choice (it's Google's own AI Overview, a single source, not a multi-model API) and no rank field, so it's shown as a plain citation count rather than a rank-weighted score like the other three.
The two boxes below the four channel charts offer several views of the same data; use the tabs to switch charts. Every view derives from the four charts' data directly, normalized 0-100 within each channel, and updates with the same dropdowns.
Pure LLM: Over- vs. Under-performers
For Used Car Dealers, domains ranked by percentile rank within each channel (100 = top domain in that channel, 0 = present but ranked last, a dash = never appeared in that channel's results at all). Over-performers (left) rank far better in Pure LLM than they do on average across Fanout, Google AI Overview, and Organic Google. Under-performers (right) are the mirror case: domains that do well across Fanout, Google AI Overview, and Organic Google but rank poorly, or don't appear at all, in Pure LLM.
| Domain | LLM | Fanout | AI Overview | Organic | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| shift.com | 81 | - | - | - | +81 |
| driveway.com | 86 | 22 | - | - | +79 |
| enterpriseusedtrucks.com | 76 | - | - | - | +76 |
| Domain | LLM | Fanout | AI Overview | Organic | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| investopedia.com | - | - | 100 | 99 | -66 |
| reddit.com | - | - | 96 | 99 | -65 |
| youtube.com | - | - | 99 | 94 | -64 |
Fanout: Over- vs. Under-performers
For Used Car Dealers, domains ranked by percentile rank within each channel (100 = top domain in that channel, 0 = present but ranked last, a dash = never appeared in that channel's results at all). Over-performers (left) rank far better in Fanout than they do on average across Pure LLM, Google AI Overview, and Organic Google. Under-performers (right) are the mirror case: domains that do well across Pure LLM, Google AI Overview, and Organic Google but rank poorly, or don't appear at all, in Fanout.
| Domain | LLM | Fanout | AI Overview | Organic | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| autotempest.com | 85 | 94 | - | - | +66 |
| bringatrailer.com | 94 | 88 | - | - | +56 |
| carsandbids.com | 91 | 76 | - | - | +45 |
| Domain | LLM | Fanout | AI Overview | Organic | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hertzcarsales.com | 80 | - | 57 | 91 | -76 |
| investopedia.com | - | - | 100 | 99 | -66 |
| reddit.com | - | - | 96 | 99 | -65 |
Google AI Overview: Over- vs. Under-performers
For Used Car Dealers, domains ranked by percentile rank within each channel (100 = top domain in that channel, 0 = present but ranked last, a dash = never appeared in that channel's results at all). Over-performers (left) rank far better in Google AI Overview than they do on average across Pure LLM, Fanout, and Organic Google. Under-performers (right) are the mirror case: domains that do well across Pure LLM, Fanout, and Organic Google but rank poorly, or don't appear at all, in Google AI Overview.
| Domain | LLM | Fanout | AI Overview | Organic | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thezebra.com | - | - | 86 | 12 | +82 |
| dictionary.com | - | - | 79 | - | +79 |
| caredge.com | 1 | 0 | 87 | 31 | +76 |
| Domain | LLM | Fanout | AI Overview | Organic | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| autonation.com | 89 | 84 | - | 98 | -90 |
| enterprisetrucksales.com | 75 | 90 | - | 97 | -87 |
| commercialtrucktrader.com | 93 | 55 | - | 96 | -82 |
Organic Google: Over- vs. Under-performers
For Used Car Dealers, domains ranked by percentile rank within each channel (100 = top domain in that channel, 0 = present but ranked last, a dash = never appeared in that channel's results at all). Over-performers (left) rank far better in Organic Google than they do on average across Pure LLM, Fanout, and Google AI Overview. Under-performers (right) are the mirror case: domains that do well across Pure LLM, Fanout, and Google AI Overview but rank poorly, or don't appear at all, in Organic Google.
| Domain | LLM | Fanout | AI Overview | Organic | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vehiclehistoryreport.com | - | - | - | 99 | +99 |
| atlantabestusedcars.com | - | - | - | 99 | +99 |
| rayskillmanford.com | - | - | - | 99 | +99 |
| Domain | LLM | Fanout | AI Overview | Organic | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bringatrailer.com | 94 | 88 | - | - | -61 |
| autotempest.com | 85 | 94 | - | - | -60 |
| drivetime.com | 69 | 47 | 55 | - | -57 |