Ranking Car Dealer site

Is there anything special about ranking car dealership niches? It seems as if all of my competitors have paid other companies to put them ahead in the serp's. It's a brand new site and it's been about 3 months and I seem to be stuck on page 5 in a small city like the shit's not even relevant. I have created maybe 160 backlinks manually n gsa'd them. Google has only found 21 so far. I am not willing to pay as my competitors did but that seems to be the citations that google like's. Should I just give it more time, find more citations? add more content? or more mentions? sorry for rambling.

Making tier 1 links with GSA says it all. You cant expect to rank your site in such a competitive niche with GSA. You need strong links, just like what your competitors are doing.

And 160 links in a short spam of time is asking for trouble.

Page 5 for a small city? Are you working with an independent lot or a dealership?

it's an independent lot, and they're more like tier 2 links because the links I'm blasting are citations and backlinks, I also have a few 2.0's in there. I will sometimes throw a couple of hundred links to it, and the way google indexing works, it looks like I dripped them anyway. But either way with most sites, normally I'm at least on page 3 by now, I have ranked plenty sites within four months, but I noticed that google took their time out for car dealerships in the gmb section, so I was wondering was their any difference in the ranking factors as well.

Make NAPs + Local Press Release - it`s must have

Do you know any good sites for making press releases?