Industry Automotive Founded 1988 Type Corporation | Website www.campagnamotors Number of employees 23 | |
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Headquarters Boucherville Quebec, Canada Key people André Morissette, President & Founder
David Neault, Vice-President & Founder | ||
Campagna Motors, was founded in 1990 in the Province of Quebec, Canada. Campagna has acquired a reputation within the automotive industry since the development of the first T-Rex prototype in 1994. Campagna's founder Daniel Campagna has devoted more than 8 years to create the T-Rex, personally handcrafting the first vehicles. Since then, Campagna has gathered a creative team of technicians carrying the mission, the vision and the T-Rex heritage.
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History
In 1976, 1977 and 1979, Daniel Campagna is a Formula One Ford Team racer in Quebec. He made some significant inventions, including the Voodoo in 1982 . It is now part of the technical team racer F1 Gilles Villeneuve. He handbuilt a first model of the T-Rex and then founded his own company, Campagna Moto Sport Inc. in 1990, brings together a team and completes a first model of the vehicle a few years later.
From 1994 to 2000, the T-Rex was only available in Quebec province. From the early 2000s, it sold in the rest of Canada and the United States. In June 2004, the company Campagna Moto Sport was facing financial difficulties and granted exclusive worldwide manufacturing and sales license of T-Rex in T-Rex Vehicles Inc.
In spring 2008, T-Rex Vehicles Inc. declares bankruptcy. The assets of the company are redeemed later the same year by André Morissette and David Neault forming Campagna Motors .
In January 2009, Campagna Motors announced the relocation of Plessisville plant in Boucherville, particularly in order to get closer to Montreal .
In July 2009, the company has 23 employees producing two to three T-Rex a week.
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The T-REX was featured on the show How It's Made.