Who owns Take 5 Car Wash?
Data updated · May 24, 2026
Take 5 Car Wash is owned by Whistle Express Car Wash (Oaktree Capital). Driven Brands sold Take 5's US car wash business to Oaktree-backed Whistle Express for $385M (Apr 2025); sites are being rebranded. It runs 296 Express Tunnel locations across 17 states.
The owner
Take 5 Car Wash is owned by Whistle Express Car Wash (Oaktree Capital) (private equity). Driven Brands sold Take 5's US car wash business to Oaktree-backed Whistle Express for $385M (Apr 2025); sites are being rebranded.
Is Take 5 Car Wash a franchise?
No — WashIndex finds no SBA franchise-loan activity under the Take 5 Car Wash brand, so it operates as a company-owned chain rather than a franchise you can buy into. Ownership of the business sits with Whistle Express Car Wash (Oaktree Capital), not individual franchisees.
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How we determine this
WashIndex classifies ownership structure from data it can verify: franchise status from SBA loan records, acquisition signatures from customer-review text, and footprint from the per-location index. A specific corporate or private-equity owner is named only where it is publicly established — we do not infer or guess parent companies. Where ownership isn't disclosed, the page says so.
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