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Top 25 Car dealerships based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 1,750 car dealerships headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 31,661 professional contacts across them, including 8,817 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers car dealerships headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest car dealerships based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,767 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Lookers Group are proud to represent more than 30 leading car manufacturers in over 150 dealerships, employing 6500 people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,249 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TrustFord is the world’s largest Ford dealer group, operating over 60 sites in the UK, including Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,231 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Evans Halshaw is the UK's number one car retailer in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 591 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Perrys are the award winning national dealer group established in 1908; representing 10 brands including, Citroen, CUPRA, Ford, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, MG, Peugeot, SEAT and Vauxhall.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 559 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Big Motoring World is a multi-award winning used Car Supermarket with showrooms in Kent, Peterborough, London, Leeds, Sheffield, Cannock, Camberley, Warrington and Norwich.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 480 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “There's no car like a Motorpoint car.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 451 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The John Clark Motor Group is a name synonymous with exceptional customer service and automotive expertise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 431 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Glyn Hopkin Since our first site opened in 1993 the Glyn Hopkin Group has grown to become one of the UK's largest and most successful automotive dealership networks.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 410 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 365 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Are you all about good carma?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 355 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Retailers of Volkswagen, Skoda, Kia, SEAT, CUPRA and GWM.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 355 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Harwoods is a trusted retailer of new and used vehicles across Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey and Kent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 340 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pentagon was established in March 1991.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 319 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Dick Lovett Group is a family owned company which has been serving the South-West and Wales for over 50 years, representing the very best automotive brands including Aston…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 311 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eastern Western Motor Group is proud to be Scotland's leading privately owned dealer group and looks forward to serving its customers and communities now and in the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 301 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Swansway Motor Group is a family owned and run business, our roots in the motor trade stretch back to 1967 when Michael Smyth was one of the first Toyota franchisees in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 288 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Group 1 BMW forms part of Group 1 Retail Limited, a leading international automotive retail company, partnering with many of the world’s best automotive brands and now with over…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 286 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “From humble beginnings in 1967, the RRG Group has grown to become one of the biggest and most successful Dealer Groups in the North West, with new and used car dealerships across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 261 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Drivers looking for their next new or approved used vehicle in the South of England will find a Yeomans dealership nearby, where our friendly team will be happy to help.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 238 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vospers Motor House Ltd (known as Vospers) is a family run business that means motoring in the South West.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Discover first-class car shopping across 11 of our award-winning dealerships in Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicester and Lincoln.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “This family owned business has steadily grown into what it is today, implementing new ideas along the way and fine tuning the traditional.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 212 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Drive Motor Retail are an award-winning car and van dealership with a turnover of approximately £400 million per annum and over 800 members of staff employed in 30 dealerships…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 206 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “This business is no longer trading.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Allen Ford is one of the UK's leading and longest established Ford dealer groups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: car dealerships. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names car dealerships.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of car dealerships, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name car dealerships. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Car dealerships based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,750 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among car dealerships, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “car dealerships”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names car dealerships), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among car dealerships, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 8,817 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Car dealerships by metro
- Car dealerships in London64
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names car dealerships, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many car dealerships are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 1,750 car dealerships headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Lookers Motor Group Limited, headquartered in Altrincham, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most car dealerships?
London leads with 64 headquartered companies, followed by Derby (15) and Leicester (15).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 8,817 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,750 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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