The Batman: 14 Huge Reveals From The Batsuit & Batmobile Images

8. The Batmobile Was Repurposed, Not Purpose-Built

So far in the film history of Batman, we've only ever seen Batmobiles that were built for the job of being Batman's car. Or at least Batman's "on-the-job vehicle" of choice.

Burton's Batmobile was an extension of Batman's grotesque theatricality (and so was Schumacher's), Nolan's was a functional behemoth taken from a military project with largely the same objectives as a superhero would have and Snyder's was a billionaire's arsenal mounted on wheels. They were all the creation of a Batman (or the team behind him) with unlimited resources, imagination and experience of what was needed.

Reeves' Batmobile, in stark contrast, was clearly something else before it was a superhero's vehicle. It was a car. A muscle car, to be a little more precise. A hybrid Dodge Challenger with lots of adjustments on the chassis to be even more precise. In other words, it could have been the kind of car you'd expect a young, arrogant millionaire to splash his cash on, which might be where Bruce got the inspiration for it.

How he developed it is the mystery here. Could it be that Alfred is a genius mechanic, as he would have been in Darren Aronofsky's strange, cancelled Year One? Or could we see Bruce actually have his own personal mechanic, as he did in Batman: The Animated Series?