Production chronology1980–1988
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
curated ↗9 years
← Chimo
Chimo / Model record
ChimoCoupé
Production1980–1988
Recorded originCanada
ClassTwo-door fiberglass coupé
Only documented Chimo automobile family. Customotive Inc. began production at Saint-Laurent, Quebec in 1980, moved to Ottawa in 1985, and Image Inc. of Smiths Falls continued the design from 1985 until approximately 1988. Its one-piece fiberglass body was described as unusually novel for Canadian manufacture and by one source as resembling the Jaguar XJ-S, but it was not a Jaguar replica. Volkswagen, Ford V6 and Mazda rotary installations were customer/build configurations, not separately named factory models. A later surviving body reportedly carried an electric motor, but there is no evidence for a factory electric variant.
Chronology ledger
Dates with their meaning intact
Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: attributed imagery. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.
Research notes
No dependable total, annual output, kit-versus-complete-car split or surviving-vehicle register is published.