With an asking price of $US1.5 million ($AU2. 27 million), the electric Batmobile is six-times more than the most expensive electric car in Australia – the $351,000 Porsche Taycan Turbo S – although its authenticity is yet to be verified.
In an interview with CNBC that was published around that time, Friedlinghaus opined that building a real-life Batmobile would cost around $9 million, excluding the cost of munitions. How much such a unique vehicle would be sold for is anybody's guess.
From the TV series that brought us Kapow, Crash and Bang! The original Batmobile from the iconic Batman TV series reached a new record when it sold at auction.
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.
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 BMW 3.0 CSL wraps up the excellent year BMW fans have had with releases such as the long-awaited M3 Touring, M4 CSL and the new M2. It will come at a cost though, €750 000 for European buyers or roughly R13 million before taxes.
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.
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.
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 ...
Batman reveals that the Batmobile can reach a top speed of 230 miles per hour, making it faster than any legal nonracing car. The Batmobile's boost thrusters can push its speed to 350 miles per hour for a short duration.
The Batmobile is the car driven by the superhero Batman. Housed in the Batcave, which it accesses through a hidden entrance, the Batmobile is both a heavily armored tactical assault vehicle and a personalized custom-built pursuit and capture vehicle that is used by Batman in his fight against crime.
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.
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". The Batmobile design was based on a 1955 Lincoln Futura, a concept car built in Italy by the Ford Motor Company.
The Batmobiles built for the series were never bought by ABC but became the possession of their creator, George Barris who rented them out around the country. The first and second car are still owned by George Barris. The third car is on exhibit in a Gatlinburg, Tennessee museum (along with the Batcycle).
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.
(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.
In the 2016 DC Extended Universe film Suicide Squad, the Jokermobile is a light purple custom-built Infiniti G35 with a Vaydor frame modified by the Joker.
So far, the bid has climbed to $62,777 for this replica created for the owner in 2021 with a 1992 Corvette serving as the donor chassis. The Caped Crusader (or you, if you win the auction) will have plenty of Bat Juice to fight crime, thanks to a 6.2-liter LS3 V8 engine under the hood.
Producers already had a good relationship with Lamborghini since "Batman Begins," in which the Murcielago Roadster, with a price tag of almost $400,000, made its movie debut. "It needed to be a convertible because he gets into the car with two girls; if it had a roof, they wouldn't have fit in," Crowley says.
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.
