
How Tesla, Toyota, Ford, and GM Use Reddit
Four automakers. Four Reddit positions. How Tesla, Toyota, Ford, and GM win or lose the AI citation layer that now answers which car to buy.

Four automakers. Four Reddit positions. How Tesla, Toyota, Ford, and GM win or lose the AI citation layer that now answers which car to buy.

The inaugural EVs Citation Share Index 2026 — which EV brands ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews actually cite. Tesla owns category. Rivian owns adventure. Lucid owns range. Ford and GM own legacy-going-electric. BYD owns global scale.

General Motors' 2014 ignition-switch recall covered 2.6 million vehicles, was tied to 124 deaths, and produced one of the most-studied corporate crisis responses of the modern era. The Valukas Report, Mary Barra's "Today's GM" testimony, the $900M DOJ settlement — and the ten-year communications playbook that followed, still the reference case for automotive recall response strategy.