Warner Bros.’ decision to turn Wayne Enterprises into an extreme luxury lifestyle brand, casually selling Batman fans $1,500 skin care products either $21,000 phallic mushroom lamps—it was already the height of absurdity, but now the studio is taking it a step further with the latest addition to the Wayne Enterprises catalog: an ultra-rare, functional but not street legal, three million dollars recreation of Christopher Nolan’s Tumbler Ordinance cinema.
Made in collaboration with Action Vehicle Engineering, only 10 glasses will be done for incredibly rich people interested in spending $2.99 million on any given Tuesday. While you obviously can’t visit stores with this, each Tumbler will be fully functional and will include custom modifications and customization for each buyer, including custom interiors. Here’s the full technical breakdown of each vehicle, if you don’t have three million dollars to spend but are still interested in what it takes to make a working Batmobile/light armored vehicle:
- Vanta Black Exterior Paint
- Powertrain 525 HP 6.2L LS3 engine with 486 ft-lbs torque
- GM 4L85E Transmission with Paddle Shift
- stainless steel headers
- Advanced software updates
- Smoke screen delivery system
- Dimensions – L15’3”/W- 9′ 3”/H -5′
- Weight – Approx. 5,511 pounds
- Materials: Kevlar, carbon fiber, metal sheets and fiberglass
- Structure – Tubular Aeronautical Steel
- Jet engine simulation (no flames)
- Hatch actuators
- 4-wheel electric disc brakes
- Wheels – Front: 15.0 / 94-15
- Wheels – Rear: 18.5 / 44-16.5
- Authentic interior with custom seats
- Digital Performance Dashboard
- Premium GPS: Lowrance GPS systems for drivers and passengers with 10″ screens
- AC
- One-way mirrored glass partitions
- Black Alcantara headliner
- Available with left-hand drive
- 2 seat configuration
- Original style board
- Original Equipment Package
- Choice of MPH or KM/H meters
- 5-point harnesses for racing car seats
Three million and no flames coming out of the engine? Cowards. If you end up on the allocation list for one of the 10 Tumblers, it will take you about 15 months after spending that three million to get the vehicle. So why not peruse the rest of the Wayne Enterprises catalog while you’re at it? Maybe you need your glass to store your golf bag, to steal at $4,100. Maybe you can serenade him, tickling the ivories of your $100,000 mountain piano. To be fair, the Tumbler itself is cheaper than other car offerings on display, such as the one from Automobili Pininfarina. 3.4 million dollars Gotham-themed Battista.
Fortunately, Wayne Enterprises also sells the Hot Toys 1/6 scale Batmobile glass If all this is too rich for your tastes. At $635, it’s perhaps the closest thing to a deal the entire company has to offer. That’s an absurd amount of money to contemplate in itself, but perhaps neither you nor I are the type of people who would be among the 10 who will eventually end up owning a real Batmobile as a casual purchase.
All this and you still can’t buy the giant Batcave penny. Is left over?
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