Ellenae
Fairhurst, a pioneering new-car dealer, visits “Auto Trends with JeffCars.com”
this Saturday in honor of Women’s History Month.
While women
influence over 85 percent of today’s car sales, conversely, they only own 975
out of close to 20,000 of the new-car dealerships in America. Ethnic minority women account for a smaller piece of the new-dealership
pie, owning only 56 of today’s new-car dealerships.
Even more astonishing, 6 black women own 15 of today’s new-car dealerships, according to
the National Association of Minority Auto Dealers latest census report.
Ironically,
black women account for 51 percent of their household new-vehicle
registrations, slightly outpacing black men. More importantly, black women
outpace other ethnic and non ethnic women households, outpacing them by a
an astounding 11 percentage points, as it relates to new-vehicle registrations,
according to IHS Automotive.
