Langile Outboards

Langile Outboards was an outboard manufacturing brand owned and operated by Langile Corporation from 1937 to 1996. It was one of the most largely successful brands launched by the company before being closed due to later poor sales and increase in force of the media industry in later years.

It was a large manufacturer in two stroke outboards and inboards, the latter using pre-made engines from Langile Heavy Machinery. They eventually began making Sterndrives, which used the prop from it's outboards but the Langile Heavy Machinery engines for inside the boat.

History
The brand was launched by Eric Langile to specialize itself in outboards, which were offered in 1.5hp and 5hp motors for small boats, but eventually began getting into the game with the other outboard manufacturers. They also made inboards and eventually sterndrives which initially used the Langile U-Series engine before using a V6 engine for power.

The first sterndrive was in 1961, titled the Langile Sterndriver, which used the propeller and lower portion of it's 50hp outboard at the time and the same engine as the Inboard series, which is a U6, which would be replaced by a V6 in 1978 after it was made in conjunction with it since 1969.

In 1971, the brand designed a modernized version of an outboard, which is akin to that of 30 years ahead of it's time. These outboards ranged from 50hp to 200hp, with an I3 motor for the 50hp to 90hp motors, an I4 motor for 100hp to 140hp motors, and a v6 for 150hp to 200hp outboards. All of them are two strokes, in which the motor only does one revolution to produce a powerstroke, as opposed to the four stroke, which does two.

Instead of making four strokes as with other manufacturers, Langile Outboards continued to only produce two stroke outboards, but a separate series "Langile Four Strokes" debuted it's first four stroke outboards ranging from 2hp to 300hp in 1991, but the company continued producing two strokes, which were sold for only $80 dollars for 2.5hp two stroke outboards, as opposed to the $200 dollars for four stroke outboards of the same horsepower. The brand closed in 1996 to prevent antitrust lawsuits after Langile Corporation's larger subsidiary ATBW Label Networks purchased CLP Network and was on the verge of growing, which also led the formation of Langile Mediaworks Division and eventually ATBW Holdings LLC and Langile Holdings LLC, the latter holding the non-ATBW entities.

Following the split of Langile Corporation on May 30, 2003, the brand was briefly revived only to be closed again in 2005.