Ertex Grove

A vehicle's lifespan is thirty years. A cedar's is three hundred. For every vehicle leaving Ertex, we plant ten trees in our grove in Kirsehir. The species, location and age of every tree are recorded, and each one is linked to a vehicle's chassis number.

Grove Record

Tree Identities

Even the finest steel eventually tires

For forty years, we have done one thing: build made-to-order vehicles by hand, each produced only once. Permanence is part of the nature of this work. Most vehicles that leave our workshop are still on the road years later, and some are now in the hands of a second generation.

Even so, leather fades, walnut veneer cracks and an engine eventually falls silent. Thirty years is the lifespan of a well-maintained vehicle. We cannot change that.

What we can change is this: add something to every vehicle that will outlive it.

Ten times the lifespan of the vehicle we deliver.

Most of the trees we plant are Taurus cedars, one of Anatolia's longest-lived trees. In the right place, they can live for three hundred years, and some for much longer. Growth is slow in Kirsehir's dry soil, but we are in no hurry.

Two lifespans at the same scale

A legacy that outlives a vehicle

The Roots Program connects every Ertex delivery with ten living cedar trees and a vehicle-linked record.

Vehicle delivery

The Roots Program record begins when the bespoke Ertex vehicle is delivered.

Ten trees

Ten Taurus cedar trees are planted in the Ertex Holding Grove for every vehicle.

Recorded identity

The species, location and age of every tree are recorded against the vehicle's masked chassis record.

Care and visit

Ertex undertakes field care, and the grove can be visited at any time.

Three hundred decares in Kirsehir

Planting trees in Central Anatolia is not easy. During July, August and September, this land receives a total of thirty millimetres of rain, only three fingers of water across an entire summer.

That is why we plant in spring and use drip irrigation throughout summer. Every sapling remains our responsibility for its first three years. We did not choose easy soil; had we done so, the story would have been just as easy.

Ertex Grove is on a 300-decare Ertex Holding property in Kirsehir, immediately beside Big Thermal Spa Resort. Ertex Holding Grove can be visited at any time.

Every tree has an identity

The grove record contains the vehicle, masked chassis, tree species, count, planting season, site and individual tree identities.

The displayed record is representative. Personal data is shared only with the relevant record holder.

Care, renewal and continuity

Ertex care

Ertex undertakes the field care of the trees within the program.

Recorded continuity

Tree species, location and age remain connected to the relevant vehicle record.

Seasonal replacement

Any losses are replaced with new trees in the following planting season.

The Grove Record documents the program and does not create ownership or property rights over the trees.

Ten trees for every Ertex vehicle

Contact our team for more information about Ertex Grove and the Roots Program.