As accelerated dealership consolidation reshapes the auto retail landscape, Automotive News‘ annual ranking of the top 150 dealership groups based in the U.S. is changing, too.
The groups on the list commanded a bigger percentage of the U.S. industry’s new light-vehicle sales in 2022 and held a growing share of the U.S. dealership count, according to the Automotive News Research & Data Center, which compiles the list. As those groups got larger, they also performed better than the industry as a whole in a year that saw overall new-car sales decline. The top 150 recorded a collective new-vehicle sales decline far narrower than the decline in overall U.S. light-vehicle sales.
