An electric Batmobile – allegedly used during filming of the 1992 film Batman Returns – is for sale in the US with an asking price of $US1. 5 million ($AU2. 27 million).
After the movie's debut, a coachbuilder showed interest in creating 5 production models of the Mercedes AMG Vision GT6. Expected to cost USD 1.5 million (Rs 12 crore), the carbon fibre models were expected to be based on the SLS AMG GT chassis.
Barris was purportedly showing off. The coppers were so enamored in pulling over the “real” Batmobile and its creator, that they let Barris go with a warning. The value of the finished Batmobile, in 1966, was $125,000. In 2013, the original Barris Batmobile sold for a kachinging $4.6 million dollars.
Michael Keaton's 1989 Batmobile Just Hit the Market for $1.5 Million. It wasn't built for speed, maxing out at just 30 mph, but it does come with a working flamethrower. The Batmobile from Tim Burton's Batman movies.
$4.6 Million Batmobile With George Barris - BARRETT-JACKSON 50th ANNIVERSARY
Who bought the Batmobile for 4.2 million?
The Batmobile used by actor Adam West in the original TV series of Batman has sold for $4.2m (£2.6m) at a US auction. The car was bought by Rick Champagne, a logistics company owner from Phoenix, Arizona. The 56-year-old, who was just 10 when the high-camp TV series began in 1966, said it "was a dream come true".
After many years on display at Gatlinburg's Guinness World Records Museum, The 1966 Barris TV Show Batmobile has moved a couple of blocks and is now part of the Hollywood Star Cars Collection.
What was the highest price paid for the Batmobile?
Hosted at the Barrett-Jackson classic car auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, on 19 January 2013, businessman Rick Champagne's winning bid of $4.6 million (more than R84 million by today's money) secured his ownership of the original Batmobile.
This is a street-legal replica of the Batmobile used in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. It costs $1 million, which is around £600k in real money, and is therefore more expensive than a pair of Lamborghini Aventadors.
Oh yes – You read that headline correctly. There's actually a street-legal Batmobile in existence. It only took two years, about a million dollars and one seriously psyched superfan to achieve. And like the real Batmobile, it's often zooming down the road to help those in need.
Pininfarina doesn't how much these two Batman-themed special editions might cost, but the Battista starts at $2.2 million and the B95 costs $4.8 million. So you'll need to be as rich as Bruce Wayne.
This Batmobile, a replica of the 1989 movie car also known as the Keaton Batmobile or the Burton Batmobile (Michael Keaton being the actor to play the Dark Knight and Tim Burton the director to bring his story to life on the big screen), is not just DC-approved, but also the world's only road-legal Batmobile and the ...
Fans have varying ideas about its true size, and Big Rentz uses one such estimate of the building: spanning 12,000ft2, Batman's home is a massive structure with a cost of $600 per ft2, taking the cave's construction cost to $7.2m.
Eight years ago, the iconic Batmobile that George Barris built for the 1966–68 Batman television series sold at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale for an astounding $4.62M. When it comes to replicas, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell put it best: “There ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby.”
The Batmobile was built upon a Chevrolet Impala chasis with a Chevy V8 engine, and was based on and modified from a 1970 Corvette body when previous development with a Jaguar and Ford Mustang failed. A second car was based on an Oldsmobile Cutlass Convertible.
The cars are all about 20 feet in length and are built on two Chevrolet Impala chassis' spliced together. In addition, the vehicles have a V-8 Chevrolet engine, components of a Rolls-Royce jet engine for the hood-mounted intake, and a British Herrier fighter jet utilized for the turbine blades in the nosepiece.
In November 2012 Barris Kustom and George Barris announced the sale of the Batmobile at the Barrett-Jackson car show and auction held in Scottsdale, Arizona. The vehicle fetched $4.2 million on January 19, 2013.
In modern times, standard Batmobile equipment includes bulletproof wind-shields, ejector seats, automatic/voice-controlled pilot systems, radio links to the Batcave and Oracle, a customized GPS system, anti-theft devices, and infrared vision to allow stealth driving.
Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the character first appeared in Detective Comics #33 (November 1939). Batman: Three Jokers #1 (August 2020). In Batman's origin story, Joe Chill is the mugger who murders young Bruce Wayne's parents, Dr. Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne.
(There are even more detailed in published accounts, dating back to 1939 when Batman made his first comic book appearance.) But for purists, there is only one true Batmobile. The rest are just imitations of the original. What we have come to recognize in popular culture as the Batmobile was built in 1966.
