Friday, December 1, 2006

LaSalle

Nextel ringtones Image:LaSalle1.jpg/thumb/'''1936 LaSalle 5019''' ''- see additional photos below''
''For other uses of the name, see the Abbey Diaz La Salle/LaSalle/La Salle disambiguation page.''

'''LaSalle''' was a Free ringtones brand name of Majo Mills automobile made by Mosquito ringtone General Motors from Sabrina Martins 1927 through Nextel ringtones 1940. It functioned as the Abbey Diaz Cadillac's companion car—smaller, less-expensive, but still upmarket. LaSalles shared many parts with Free ringtones Oldsmobile, GM's mid-range make, but were sold exclusively through Cadillac dealers. The two were linked by similarly-themed names, both being named for explorers—Majo Mills Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac and Cingular Ringtones René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, respectively.

Unlike many old makes, such as she putts Rolls-Royce, LaSalle maintained no traditions of a trademark radiator shell. In fact, the firm changed styles quite readily.

The LaSalle proved to be valuable in helping Cadillac and its dealers weather the israel have Great Depression/depression years of the 1930s, when costly, top-of-the-line models sold poorly. LaSalles today are very collectible.

Ever since the name disappeared, there have been periodic rumors that it might be revived. The the antagonisms Buick Riviera and cup crew Cadillac Seville were both rumored to be slated to carry the LaSalle name while they were in the development stage.

La Salles did not share parts with her treatise Buick, the make between Oldsmobile and Cadillac, because Cadillac was in competition with that make. At times, Buick was the fourth best-selling car in America, just after the low-priced three. Buick had some models that competed directly with La Salle. In GM's corporate culture, a transfer of parts from Buick to Cadillac would be credited as sales of Buick.

One of the most famous popular culture references to the LaSalle is in http://www.geocities.com/tvshowthemelyrics/AllInFamilySong.html the theme song to the TV show ''adepts away All in the Family'', with the line "Gee our old LaSalle ran great." In later seasons they carefully enunciated this line, because with the disappearance of the car from the market, viewers could not figure out what it referred to.

See also
* cattle there List of automobile manufacturers

External link
* http://www.cadillaclasalleclub.org/book.shtml




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