Maybe your grandfather’s? (Yes, I realize it was an Olds jingle, but Oldsmobile is no more. My mom’s Delta 88 is still with us, though, although the rear badge on it lost the "smobile," so it just says "Old." The car is a 1995, so it makes sense.) I have been driving a Buick LaCrosse for the past week as my ailling 9-5 is getting fixed. And yes, it seems like the kind of car my grandfather would drive — a modern-day replacement for the huge Plymouth Furies, etc. he had with the "EFH-10" license plates (by that naming scheme, as Ed III, I should probably have gotten "EFH-30").
The name of the car — LaCrosse — confuses me. Buick touts their so-called "crossover" cars — half car, half SUV. So I would think LaCrosse might be a clever francofied pun ("the cross"), but the LaCrosse is just a sedan. And I really mean "just a sedan." Sort of like a LeSabre ("the sword"), I guess. Buick is big on the Frenchy names. Maybe it’s named after LaCrosse, Wis.? Or maybe it’s just a relatively harmless, generic-sourced name for a relatively harmless, generic car. Which it is. I’m convinced the only people driving LaCrosses are the elderly, renters or Tiger Woods. And I’m pretty certain Tiger only drives them on camera.
