Adonis was a forgotten French young designer-made supercar
Forgotten ONES Everyone must have a dream that they want to come true, so what if that dream comes true? Can you imagine how happy would be when your dream is realized. And that feeling was felt by Nicolas Bourbon when he successfully completed his dream supercar in 1993.
Adonis is designed and built by Nicolas Bourbon back in 1993 for 3,600 hours over 5 years of work. (Picture from: AllCarIndex)
It should be admited that's a beautiful supercar prototype which is a teenager's dream come true. This extraordinary vehicle mentioned above named the Adonis is the work of Nicolas Bourbon, a young car designer from Genlis, Côte-d'Or in eastern France. The Nicolas Bourbon's Adonis may be similar in name to the Edonis, a supercar built of B Engineering based on the Bugatti EB110 launched later in 2001.
Nicolas Bourbon has built the entire car from scratch, including the front and rear wheels, pneumatic suspension, reverse mirrored headlights and superb bodywork. (Picture from: AllCarIndex)
According to Le Bien Public, it was a crazy project done in a crazy rhythm of young-aged Nicolas Bourbon for 3,600 hours over 5 years of work patiently accomplished in his family garage during his lunch hours, evenings, weekends and holidays. That means long periods of working which resulted in a dream car prototype that looks like a supercar, that's could be said a very extraordinary achievement.
Interior view of Nicolas Bourbon's Adonis supercar. (Picture from: AllCarIndex)
Nicolas Bourbon has built the entire car from scratch, including the front and rear wheels, pneumatic suspension, reverse mirrored headlights and superb bodywork. Of course in the process he did not work alone. As quoted of All Car Index, it turns out that he collaborated with Lionel Garrault of Genlis for leather work, and Mécanique Générale Outillage (MGO) of Varanges for machining. As for bodywork, he gained a bit more knowledge while working at Piscine Provence Polyester in Pouilly-en-Auxois for composite fibres.
Nicolas Bourbon's Adonis is powered by a 5,200 cc V8 mid-mounted engine capable spitting out of 420 hp @ 7,000 rpm. (Picture from: AllCarIndex)
Just imagine the result is such a beautiful supercar with a length of about 4,500 mm, a width of 2,000 mm, then a height of about 950 mm with a wheelbase of 3,000 mm. Amazingly, the Adonis is powered by a 5,200 cc V8 mid-mounted engine capable of spitting out 420 hp at 7,000 rpm. Well, when asked about the performance is also quite capable with the ability to accelerate from rest to 100 kph in just 3.3 seconds and a claimed top speed of around 330 kph.
Young Nicolas Bourbon posed along with his creation supercar named Adonis. (Picture from: AllCarIndex)
It is not surprising that through his Adonis supercar work, then Nicolas Bourbon was declared one of the prize winners at the Expo-Sciences at Nevers and at the Youth Challenge run by the French Ministry of Youth and Sports, and was highly praised by automotive journals at that time.
Nicolas Bourbon's Adonis handcrafted supercar received an extraordinary response when it attended in late February at the Racing and Special Car Exhibition in Paris. (Picture from: AllCarIndex)
Nicolas Bourbon's handcrafted supercar also received an extraordinary response when it attended in late February at the Racing and Special Car Exhibition held in Paris, where the beautiful car received tremendous attention and enthusiastic reception of the event visitors since the car came out of the trailer.
Not only that, a number of congratulated greetings were received by the car creator given by the many major company's directors and as well a number of offered proposals from the car constructors. We don't know what happened after that, in fact until now the Adonis has never been mass-produced and there is only one in this world. Will the dream, 'concept car' really come true? *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | LE BIEN PUBLIC | BOURBON GENLIS | ALLCARINDEX | AUTOWORLD TURBO ]
Not only that, a number of congratulated greetings were received by the car creator given by the many major company's directors and as well a number of offered proposals from the car constructors. We don't know what happened after that, in fact until now the Adonis has never been mass-produced and there is only one in this world. Will the dream, 'concept car' really come true? *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | LE BIEN PUBLIC | BOURBON GENLIS | ALLCARINDEX | AUTOWORLD TURBO ]
