10 Secrets Of The Batmobile Explained
3. The Nineties Movies Batmobiles
The serials of the 1940s may have first brought the Batmobile to live-action life, and Burt Ward and Adam West may have had their own fan favourite version of the car in the sixties, but Michael Keaton's Dark Knight took things to a whole different level when he rocked up with his own Batmobile in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman picture.
In that film and its follow-up, Batman Returns, Keaton's Bats was cruising around in a car that left jaws agape. It was great, it was sleek, it was cool, it was extremely shiny... and it also came to typify the visual impact Burtons films would leave on Batman as a whole.
Hand sculpted and inspired by the racing cars of the 1950s, this Batmobile is legitimately capable of going from 0 to 60 mph in just 3.7 seconds in real life - although the back end of the car actually begins to sway and wobble once the vehicle hits 90 mph!
The Batmobile of those two Burton-helmed, Keaton-headlined offerings would also go on to influence the wheels driven around by Kevin Conroy's Dark Knight in the mesmerising Batman: The Animated Series, and the greater DC Animated Universe that spawned from that stunning show.
Elsewhere on the big screen, the Batmobile driven by Val Kilmer's Dark Knight in Batman Forever is able to project a 25-foot flame out of its exhaust, whereas the Batman & Robin vehicle tied to George Clooney's Bats is unique in that it only has one solitary seat inside.