Best Subaru Dealerships in Braintree, MA

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Buying guidance

Braintree has its own Subaru store: Quirk Works Subaru at 372 Quincy Avenue. Four more Subaru dealers sit within about 25 miles, in Norwood, Hanover, Belmont, and Wakefield. This guide ranks all five using the numbers CarThrive tracks for every dealer: the Google rating and review count, the CARFAX rating where one exists, the documentation fee, and the fee-transparency grade, which scores how a dealer prices, discloses, and itemizes its fee.

The ranking is editorial, and the order is disclosed. We weigh the fee-transparency grade first, then the fee itself, then Google reviews. Quirk Works Subaru ranks first on those criteria, and the criteria are the whole story: its Google rating of 4.2 stars is the lowest of the five and its 1,046 reviews are the smallest base, and this guide states both facts in plain numbers. Every competitor here outrates it. Read all five entries before deciding who earned your visit.

The fee picture favors Quirk inside this set. Its documentation fee is $499, the lowest of the five and $59 under the Massachusetts average of $558, and it itemizes the fee inside the advertised price and explains it on a dedicated documentation-fee page. One honest exception, named here rather than buried: Ira Subaru in Danvers charges $495, four dollars less, and earns 88 A with 4.5 stars across 3,828 reviews. Danvers is about 28 road miles from Braintree, outside this guide's range, so Ira is not ranked, but a fee lower than Quirk's exists in the region and you should know it.

1. Quirk Works Subaru (Braintree) Quirk Works Subaru is the in-city store, at 372 Quincy Avenue in Braintree. Its documentation fee is $499, lowest in this set, and its fee-transparency grade is 92 A, the highest of any Subaru dealer graded in the region, built on the fee itself, full itemization inside the advertised price, and the dedicated fee page. The weaknesses are reputation volume and proof: 4.2 stars across 1,046 reviews trails every dealer in this guide, and the store has no CARFAX rating on file. If you shop on price math and paperwork you can read before you visit, Quirk has the cleanest file here. If you shop on consensus, keep reading, because the consensus points elsewhere.

2. Cityside Subaru (Belmont) Cityside Subaru is Quirk's closest transparency rival: a documentation fee of $529, second lowest in the set, a grade of 83 B, a Google rating of 4.4 stars across 1,262 reviews, and a CARFAX rating of 4.7 across 2,130 reviews. Its grade page carries an unusual footnote: a self-contradicting footer on its own site costs it points, and removing it would lift Cityside to 88 A. As published today it sits at 83 B, and that is the grade that counts. Belmont is a longer drive from Braintree, through the city, which is the practical price of its strong file.

3. Planet Subaru (Hanover) Planet Subaru owns the best Google rating in this set, 4.8 stars across 1,562 reviews, and Hanover is an easy drive down Route 53 from Braintree. Its documentation fee is $598, a full $99 over Quirk's, and its grade is 73 C, held down by the fee level and thinner disclosure. Like Quirk, it has no CARFAX rating on file. Planet is the reputation pick of this guide: the happiest customers and a fee that asks you to pay for the privilege.

4. Clay Subaru (Norwood) Clay Subaru sits on the old Norwood Subaru point on Route 1, and it posts the deepest review files in this set: 4.6 stars across 1,758 Google reviews and a CARFAX rating of 4.8 across 2,504 reviews, the strongest CARFAX base here by far. Its documentation fee is $639, the highest in the set, itemized in its final prices but never named in its specials or disclaimers, and its grade is 66 C. Norwood is close to Braintree. The store's reputation is genuinely strong; its fee is the tax on it.

5. Albrecht Subaru of Wakefield (Wakefield) Albrecht Subaru posts 4.4 stars across 1,818 Google reviews and a CARFAX rating of 4.7 across 706 reviews, a solid reputation file. Its problem is the fee mechanics: the $549 documentation fee is not inside its advertised price, disclosed in disclaimers instead, which is the weakest pricing structure in this set and lands its grade at 60 C, the lowest here. Wakefield is also the far edge of this guide's range. A fair store by its reviews, ranked last on how it handles the number every buyer pays.

How to choose: if the out-the-door math matters most, start at Quirk Works Subaru, where the fee is lowest in the set, the grade is the region's best, and the store is in Braintree itself. If a deep bench of reviews matters most, Clay and Planet have earned theirs, and you now know exactly what their fees cost. And if you are willing to drive to Danvers, Ira's $495 is on the record above. Either way, get the fee in writing before the test drive.

Coverage notes: Ira Subaru in Danvers (4.5 stars across 3,828 reviews, $495 fee, 88 A) is verified but sits about 28 road miles away, outside this guide's range. MetroWest Subaru in Natick ($693 fee, 55 D) and North Reading Subaru ($599 fee, 61 C) are also outside the range. Mastria Subaru in Raynham has a CarThrive profile (4.8 stars across 2,629 reviews) but no grade page, because its published fee contradicts itself, $695 in one place and $549.75 in another, so no fee is cited for it here. The Norwood Subaru storefront is now Clay Subaru and is ranked above; there is no separate Nucar Subaru profile.

How this ranking works

This is an editorial ranking of an editor-selected sample. The order is set by Car Thrive editors, not computed from CARFAX or Google scores. A higher-rated dealership may appear lower in this editorial ranking. Ratings and review counts are shown separately for comparison and do not determine the order. Read the editorial guidance for the reasoning behind the selections. CARFAX sources are optional. Missing ratings are marked as not yet verified; ratings without a citation are labeled source not supplied. Scores and counts are editor-attested third-party figures—not Car Thrive reviews, license checks, first-hand visits, or guarantees. Read recent sales-specific reviews and compare written out-the-door offers.

Each guide publication freezes its selected rating snapshots and order. Editors must preview and republish the guide to bring in updated linked dealership ratings or change the order.

Sources and verification dates

1. Quirk Works Subaru — GoogleChecked 2026-10-09
2. Cityside Subaru — CARFAXChecked 2026-10-09
3. Cityside Subaru — GoogleChecked 2026-10-09
4. Planet Subaru — GoogleChecked 2026-10-09
5. Clay Subaru — CARFAXChecked 2026-10-09
6. Clay Subaru — GoogleChecked 2026-10-09
7. Albrecht Subaru of Wakefield — CARFAXChecked 2026-10-09
8. Albrecht Subaru of Wakefield — GoogleChecked 2026-10-09