Maples Motors Ltd was the answer 1 time out of 12. Someone else took the other 11.

33 Ottawa dealerships were named for local buyers. Maples Motors Ltd wasn’t one of them.

We asked ChatGPT and Perplexity the questions Ottawa buyers ask — monthly payments, cash budgets, where to buy — and counted every dealership named, you included, the same way. Across the whole Ottawa area: 0 of 216 answers.

1. Global Auto Sales6 of 36
2. Canadian Auto Mall5 of 36
3. Canada Sagh Auto Sales3 of 36
4. Janex Auto Sales3 of 36
5. MyCar Ottawa3 of 36
6. Maples Motors Ltdyou0 of 36

Name mentions among the local dealerships we track. The headline also counts answers that linked your site.

A dated sample of saved ChatGPT and Perplexity answers (September 29, 2026), not shopper traffic or a position inside an answer. See the full Ottawa area findings ↗

These are the 3 questions we put to all 4 engines.

Word for word, exactly as a shopper would type them. Every finding below comes from the answers to these, nothing else.

We built them from your own inventory — a car on your lot, your biggest categories, your payments — and anchored them to Ottawa. These are questions you should be showing up for.

Eight marketplaces and rival dealerships beat you on your own inventory.

All 3 of these questions were about cars sitting on your lot, in Ottawa, the market you serve. You were a correct answer every time, and 11 of 12 went to someone else.

Being linked at the bottom of an answer is not the same as being the answer. Maples Motors Ltd was the recommendation in 1. Eight competitors split the other 11 between them, which is why no single name below looks like it is beating you. Together, they are.

And the one answer you did win came from Claude, one engine. ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity picked you in none of 9.

1 further answer went to no single source we could name, so it is not in the bars above.

139 citations across those 12 answers. None send the shopper to you.

Every source an AI answer cites is a door the shopper can walk through. Here's where each of those 139 doors actually leads:

We asked ChatGPT what buyers ask every day

Your stock earns 5 research questions. Your site answers 3.

Shoppers put these questions to AI assistants before they know a year, make or model to search for — and each one is a question about Ottawa. Engines retrieve pages; a site with no page shaped like the question has nothing to be retrieved for. Every question below is earned by cars we read on your own site, and every “answered” links the page of yours that proves it.

• “Which used Honda models hold up best? I'm shopping in Ottawa.”ANSWERED — YOUR PAGE ↗
• “good used cars under $20,000 in Ottawa”no page — needs an under-$20k page
• “can I get a car loan with bad credit in Ottawa?”no page — needs a credit/financing answer page
• “what car can I get for under $400/month in Ottawa?”ANSWERED — YOUR PAGE ↗
• “what's my car worth as a trade-in in Ottawa?”ANSWERED — YOUR PAGE ↗

These 5 are the tip: counted across every category, budget band and payment combination your feed actually covers, your stock qualifies you for 33 distinct research questions — a computed count of pages your inventory could back, not an estimate.

What shoppers see vs. what AI can read

SHOPPERS SEE THIS

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<html lang="en-US">
<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
	<link rel="pingback" href="https://www.maplesmotors.ca/xmlrpc.php" />

	<script type="text/javascript">
		document.documentElement.className = 'js';
	</script>
	
	<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin /><style id="et-builder-googlefonts-cached-inline">/* Original: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:100,200,300,regular,500,600,700,800,900,100italic,200italic,300italic,italic,500italic,600italic,700italic,800italic,900italic&#038;subset=latin,latin-ext&#038;display=swap *//* User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Unknown; Linux x86_64) Appl

AI READS THIS

3 things standing between your inventory and AI answers

Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and it will independently check the findings above against your live site.