Thank you to Roger Penske and smart USA

[jwight]

Today is the last day for the Penske Auto Group version of smart USA. Everything else aside, there would not be over 47 thousand 451 smarts on the road in the USA if Roger Penske had not made the effort to set up and run an organization to import and distribute these cars. Hopefully M-B USA can move things forward, but without the work done by the Penske organization over the past four years they would be starting from scratch. Thanks Roger!

[jkjahobbs]

Thank you Roger and the rest of the Penske smart USA team for bring the smart to the USA. I love my smart.

[WhiteNBlack08]

Exactly right. There have been a lot of complaints on here about what he didn't do, but nobody else stepped up to the plate and tried.

Thanks smartUSA!

[ckgonska]

Thanks for closing down my Dealership.

[WhiteNBlack08]

Originally Posted by ckgonska

Thanks for closing down my Dealership.

Just to make this clear, Penske had nothing to do with shutting down your dealership. That was a MB-USA decision. They made the decision to stick to existing MB dealerships.

[VinceLA]

Originally Posted by ckgonska

Thanks for closing down my Dealership.

yep!

[BARNEY O]

Originally Posted by WhiteNBlack08

Just to make this clear, Penske had nothing to do with shutting down your dealership. That was a MB-USA decision. They made the decision to stick to existing MB dealerships.

And maybe that decision was based on Roger's performance or lack of

[w10king]

i too thank Penske for his unique business arrangement with MB and the launch of the smart in the US.

[jwight]

Sorta figured the usual suspects would chime in with negative comments; per post #1, without Roger you wouldn't have a smart to drive in the first place.

[jwight]

Originally Posted by BARNEY O

And maybe that decision was based on Roger's performance or lack of

Or more likely based on M-B USA wanting to keep their smart sales at selected M-B dealers exclusively.