Penske Automotive Group, Inc., says it will plant one tree for each Smart Fortwo sold in the United States last year in order to celebrate the distributor’s one-year anniversary. Penske, owned by the auto-racing legend Roger Penske, is the sole distributor for Smart Fortwos in the U.S.
The distributor will partner up with Daimler Financial Services and American Forests to plant 24,622 trees in the Cache River State Natural Area in southern Illinois. The Natural Area is located about 150 miles outside of St. Louis.
Penske says it plans to continue the tradition every year to commemorate the number of Smarts sold the year before.
