smart USA celebrating its first year by planting trees

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autobloggreen.com - 4/1/2009

smart USA celebrating its first year by planting trees

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Smart officially began selling the tiny fortwo in the U.S. market in January 2008 and by the end of that year 24,622 examples had been sold. To celebrate, the U.S. distributor is teaming up with conservation group American Forests to plant an equal number of trees. The trees will go into the ...

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