Talk:LaSalle (automobile)

Old thread
LaSalle is currently an article about an automobile. Shouldn't it go to the disambiguation page La Salle instead? Horatio 10:02, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Bad Link
The link to the song "Those Were The Days" is no good. - J. Kulacz 24.119.221.235 (talk) 12:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Companion Marque
Not being a car buff, I have no idea what a "companion marque" is. (I can sort of guess from the article, but maybe I'm guessing wrong?) Googling for the term leads me right back here. The article should define the term or link to a definition. Isaac R (talk) 18:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)


 * A "companion marque," or "companion make" in U.S. automobile parlance, appears to be one that is sold at the same dealerships as another make, but marketed to a different set of customers. The term may have been coined by GM, which always has sold several different makes of cars. I believe Lincoln and Mercury were Ford's companion makes, with Mercury being the make for more mainstream cars and Lincoln that for luxury cars, but sold together at dealerships. Probably a similar arrangement existed at Chrysler between the Chrysler (luxury car) and Plymouth (mainstream car) brands. I don't know, however, how much either Ford or Chrysler used the term "companion mark," or whether GM even used it all that much, at least in press releases and other communication with the public. 69.42.7.212 (talk) 15:22, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Removed external link
I removed the link http://www.100megsfree4.com/cadillac/lasalle/lasalle.htm from the external links section because this appears to be a self-published page that does not meet any of the WP guidelines for references. It shows no author, publisher or publication date and it does not refer to any verifiable sources. 174.21.144.176 (talk) 21:16, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Removed unclear information
"Built by General Motors of Canada after Cadillac in 1923 to 1935 and Olds 1920 to 1969 LaSalle was built here from 1927 to 1935.[citation needed]" I'm not sure what someone was trying to express here, so I've moved this unreferenced info to the talk page.174.21.144.176 (talk) 21:55, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

LaSalle gearbox in Mickey Thompson's ″Challenger I″
Mickey Thompson's Challenger I is (or was) equipped with four LaSalle 3-speed gearboxes. In the internet I read, they had been built 1937, in literature there is a version, they came out of a 1948 Cadillac. This would fit only if Cadillac in 1948 still did use LaSalle gearboxes like in 1937. Could this be? 130.83.197.103 (talk) 19:15, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Root problems in GM's brand program need to be addressed, as does the introduction
There seems to be a pretty poor understanding of GM's brand strategy in the 1920s in this article. The pre companion make roster of established brands was: Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Oakland, Buick, and Cadillac, in ascending order of list price. That is easily verified.

Oldsmobile in the 1920s was always priced below Oakland, not the other way around. Oakland had an eight before Olds did. And even though Oakland was higher in the pecking order, it was given Pontiac because Oakland sales were slowing down and it had the excess capacity to build Pontiac. So the Pontiac/Oakland mating was the only one done because of volume, not contiguous standing in the GM roster.

The introduction to the article is needlessly redundant, overly wordy, and uses the wrong terms. At the very least it needs a rewrite.

GM's companion brand concept needs its own article that can be referred to. That would get rid of the needless and redundant referrals to GM's other brands and would lead to a clearer lead-in, and it would explain why Chevrolet wasn't given a companion make - due to Knudsen's "Vun for Vun" call to dominate Ford by aiming the division squarely at Ford's dominance in the marketplace. SJKBalto (talk) 19:52, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

GM Hierarchy is incorrect
I would add this but I haven’t the time to wrestle with footnote formatting (chemo treatment time) but Oakland was never below Oldsmobile in GM’s hierarchy. Oakland was make above Oldsmobile. In 1929, Olds models were priced $945-1035. Oakland models, per Sloan’s pricing hierarchy were $1145-1375. Pontiac, assigned to Oakland because Oakland sales were falling throughout the 1920s, and Oakland had the excess production facilities, giving Pontiac the position between Chevrolet and Oldsmobile, not Chevrolet and Oakland. Oldsmobile moved into Oakland’s vacated slot starting in 1933/34. Cleveexpat (talk) 21:31, 16 December 2023 (UTC)