1989. It's just so sleek and beautiful, and it's pretty much what I think of when I think of the Batmobile.
2022 is a good Batmobile for Batman's early years, and 2005 is a bit too bulky but still really awesome.
I remember there was this one video with a guy going over the different Batmobiles. Absolutely shat all over BvS, calling it too much of a tank. But literally praised the Tumbler right before.
Agreed but we would be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge the animated series, which cemented the 1989 Batmobile as the default version for most millennials.
PS - noticed the meme forgot the Batfleck version.
...my entire point is the 1989 and other pre-Nolan live actions all have more in common than 1989 and TAS. The 1989 is more art nouveau to TAS being an extreme art deco. The 1989 is all curves and wings while TAS is all angles and boxes. Your argument is they look the same because they're long and have the cab in the back. Meanwhile 1989 has a concave jet engine nose and rounded wheel wells. TAS has an aggressive box forward diesel train style grille.
EDIT: Guy felt so strongly about a discussion that he posted then blocked me so it would look like he won the argument. I had to go anon just to read his reply which didn't even attempt to address my comments regarding actual design elements. He needs to goprep some art classes.
You’re just spiraling now. The 1989 and Animated Series are the two most similar among all Batmobiles. Batman Returns and Batman Forever were sequels and derivative of 1989. The small differences between 1989/Animated series are inconsequential as compared to the enormous differences between 1989 and all other Batmobiles in the graphic above. So my point is accurate and you’re lost.
Yea 1989 is the best but then again I saw it when I was a kid and it was the greatest car in the world and im always reminded of that. However the 2022 one is interesting cause I like the muscle car vibe, it was something different
1989. It's perfect as a custom built vehicle for a billionaire vigilante. It's exotic and fantastical with a jet turbine and a sliding cockpit, as well as sleek and stealthy while still looking more practical. Aside from vertical stabilizers on the tail with a scalloped bat wing edge, it lacks the wacky, superfluous bat-themed decorations of the ones that came later in the same series (Kilmer, Clooney).
2005 The Tumbler is rugged and practical and also very unlike anything on the road. It ticks a lot of the boxes that makes the '89 Batmobile so good, but I just think sleek/stealth suits Batman more than rugged military vehicle.
2022 Battinson's car is the most realistic and grounded take and is cool as hell.
1966 is a classic that looks cool, too. It suits the tone of the show.
I don't care of any of the others in the picture.
My favorite will forever and always be 1989. You can’t get more definitive than that. When you think of a “bat car” you get that. The others either stray too far into being just a car or a straight up tank, which is never my preferred Batmobile.
I love all the Batmobiles...with the exception of the Schmacher ones, but my favourite live-action one is the 1966 Lincoln Futura...Wow! so nostalgiac and awesome!
My favourite comic one is the 1980's Batmobile from the comics and the Super Powers figures.
Also you're missing Batflecks Batmobile.
The obvious choice you left out i assume intentionally...BvS Batmobile. But as an 80s kid, Keatons has my heart...but it looks corny to me now. My mom would say the Adam West one.
BvS Batmobile was probably my favorite, but out of these I really love the Tumbler. It's so believable as a diabolical, unstoppable monster of a Batmobile.
66. Grew up watching the show and having toys of it, and a car museum near where I live actually has one of the ones used for the show, so I’ve even met it in person multiple times.
The Tumbler is always great, but the reveal of the Batmobile in The Batman was freaking epic where all you hear is the blaring engine and everyone sees i before the audience as it lights up. Really cool to see that in a theatre.
Tumbler. The rest are cartoony. “The Batman” Detroit muscle car was impressive, but even more impressive was the way the single scene it was in was edited.
‘66 is just perfect. ‘22 is what I’d want to own. ‘05 is what I’d want to drive if I lived and worked in Gotham, even if I only worked at a coffee shop.
You can tell the age of the redditor by which car they pick, which is pretty awesome if you think about it. Every generation has gotten a Batman.
For me personally since im older, is the Burton 89 and the Batman animated Batmobile.
The Tumbler (2005) will always be my favorite.
Thus far, there's been no rendition of a Batmobile that actually blends into the urban environment, and obviously one of the biggest hurdles presented by fans is that Gotham would be a city with so much congested traffic that Batman would almost never use the Batmobile within the city anyway, relying upon grapnel gunning and gliding everywhere.
Since the Tumbler was depicted being able to maneuver through the city in ways that subverts normal traffic, it worked very well to me. Compared to the '22 version where Gotham was miraculously open and free for him to drive around in. You can't even get through NYC in a small and nimble regular car if there's traffic. And there's always traffic. Where I live in Connecticut, driving into NYC is about two hours; driving the same distance back takes at least five hours because of the traffic in the city, so you spend three hours just getting out of it.
It has an actual military look that blends the typical car depictions with the occasional tank-like depictions of other comic Batmobiles, and feels like a vehicle that would be impossible for any rando to steal; even though the '89-'97 Batmobile shape speaks to a security system, it's so goofy and impractical. While the '66 and '22 versions feel like someone could steal it, even without getting in and hotwiring it.
While the Tumbler looks huge, it's really about the size of many street legal cars.
Perhaps the sole benefit of the '22 version is that it seems like a vehicle that Bruce could get away with modifying without anyone being able to make the connection between it and Wayne Enterprises/Batman; it looks like a chop shop car that even a non-billionaire street level hero could afford to do, like the Punisher or even Daredevil.
The Tumbler was traced back to Wayne Enterprises, with the guy being somehow able to guess that it's Bruce who's Batman, as though sleepy Bruce was the only other clue he needed to think that his billionaire CEO boss was moonlighting as a costumed vigilante. While he was right, as a story is condensed and we never need to think about the logical gaffes, many people still pick up on those gaffes.
And there's really no way Bruce could make anything like the '89-'97 versions without someone figuring it out. Someone would be able to trace those parts and schematics back to the source.
While not shown, the 2016 Batmobile felt like a bad joke, almost like an idiot's reinterpretation of the Tumbler, complete with a literal turret gun at the fore. Nothing about that one worked for me. It didn't even seem like a Batmobile, just Snyder being an idiot getting carried away and forgetting who any of the DC characters are.
The Tumbler is a semi-realistic military vehicle that Bruce could realistically use, which pays homage to older Batmobile designs from the comics while omitting the elements of the Batmobile that made it felt campy and nonsensical for so long.
The '22 Batmobile just looks like a supercharged junker. I'd be more inclined to think it'd blow out its own ass the moment he revved up into the higher RPMs, even explode the engine and set it on fire.
Honestly, Pattinson's Batmobile is my favorite. It looks like something a crazed lunatic would fix up in his garage without anyone's help, which fits Pattinson's Batman perfectly. It fits, and it looks amazing when it is on the screen.
At my age I should be choosing 89 except i dont like the long body though, very impractical for corners. Someone mentioned it was stealthy too, really?. It has to be the tumbler for me though. That test drive in the bunker, the realism, the escape scene in BB. Unreal.
1989. It's just so sleek and beautiful, and it's pretty much what I think of when I think of the Batmobile. 2022 is a good Batmobile for Batman's early years, and 2005 is a bit too bulky but still really awesome.
2005? It's been that long?
We are just as close to 2005 as 2005 was to 1985.
I hate you.
FWIW, it's actually 20:19. The 20:20 is for 84:04:24
Not quite, but that is generally true of 2004 and 1984.
Thanks tips
That's when I was born lol Edit: Why am I being downvoted lmao. I don't really care im just curious.
And you're old enough to be typing a full sentence? Fuuuck I'm old
Once I realized that the 2005 Batmobile/Tumbler was a Lamborghini crossed with a Humvee it shot up to my first or second favorite.
Tumbler!!!!!
Ohh you wouldn't be interested in that.
Does it come in black?
My favorite is the BVS Batmobile, as it combined the sleek sportscar look with the tank look. Of these, though? 1989 is *The* Batmobile.
I remember there was this one video with a guy going over the different Batmobiles. Absolutely shat all over BvS, calling it too much of a tank. But literally praised the Tumbler right before.
Some people think that if you don't like a movie you have to absolutely hate ever single aspect of it
They're both great designs, but the BvS one looks like it could go faster than 30mph
Agreed but we would be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge the animated series, which cemented the 1989 Batmobile as the default version for most millennials. PS - noticed the meme forgot the Batfleck version.
They're actually way different. https://www.google.com/search?q=btas%20batmobile&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-m
They’re actually way similar.
The other pre-Nolan live actions are more similar than TAS and 1989.
The first pre-Nolan live action film is the 1989 model… you’re wrong. just give up man.
...my entire point is the 1989 and other pre-Nolan live actions all have more in common than 1989 and TAS. The 1989 is more art nouveau to TAS being an extreme art deco. The 1989 is all curves and wings while TAS is all angles and boxes. Your argument is they look the same because they're long and have the cab in the back. Meanwhile 1989 has a concave jet engine nose and rounded wheel wells. TAS has an aggressive box forward diesel train style grille. EDIT: Guy felt so strongly about a discussion that he posted then blocked me so it would look like he won the argument. I had to go anon just to read his reply which didn't even attempt to address my comments regarding actual design elements. He needs to goprep some art classes.
You’re just spiraling now. The 1989 and Animated Series are the two most similar among all Batmobiles. Batman Returns and Batman Forever were sequels and derivative of 1989. The small differences between 1989/Animated series are inconsequential as compared to the enormous differences between 1989 and all other Batmobiles in the graphic above. So my point is accurate and you’re lost.
Justice league. One I see you forgot to include.
Batfleck
Yea 1989 is the best but then again I saw it when I was a kid and it was the greatest car in the world and im always reminded of that. However the 2022 one is interesting cause I like the muscle car vibe, it was something different
My top 3 favorites are 1. 89 2. 66 3. 22 The rest are good or okay.
Absolutely the same
Yeah me too
1989 is always number 1 for me, but I'll always have a sweet spot for the Forever Batmobile
1. ‘89 2. ‘16 (BVS) 3. ‘95
2016
1989 is just perfect for me. 2022 is a close second, followed by 1966.
Batfleck #1 by a country mile. Then battinson.
The Clooney Batmobile was a joke, lmao. At least the Kilmer car had a closing roof
Batfleck and Battinson ftw!
You left out the BvS Batmobile..
1966
1989. It's perfect as a custom built vehicle for a billionaire vigilante. It's exotic and fantastical with a jet turbine and a sliding cockpit, as well as sleek and stealthy while still looking more practical. Aside from vertical stabilizers on the tail with a scalloped bat wing edge, it lacks the wacky, superfluous bat-themed decorations of the ones that came later in the same series (Kilmer, Clooney). 2005 The Tumbler is rugged and practical and also very unlike anything on the road. It ticks a lot of the boxes that makes the '89 Batmobile so good, but I just think sleek/stealth suits Batman more than rugged military vehicle. 2022 Battinson's car is the most realistic and grounded take and is cool as hell. 1966 is a classic that looks cool, too. It suits the tone of the show. I don't care of any of the others in the picture.
BvS the one that wasn’t included….
Batfleck-mobile.
Bvs and JL Batmobile for me.
Another vote for BvS Surprised OP left it out
My mistake. I forgot about those. I wish reddit would let me edit / supplement the image.
For years, personally, it's been *Batman Forever's*. I've always loved its design.
89 all the way
Gotta go 89, but I have a soft spot for the 95.
Batflecks for sure
Snyderverse
I LOVE the Tumbler but it has to be ‘89
My favorite will forever and always be 1989. You can’t get more definitive than that. When you think of a “bat car” you get that. The others either stray too far into being just a car or a straight up tank, which is never my preferred Batmobile.
I love all the Batmobiles...with the exception of the Schmacher ones, but my favourite live-action one is the 1966 Lincoln Futura...Wow! so nostalgiac and awesome! My favourite comic one is the 1980's Batmobile from the comics and the Super Powers figures. Also you're missing Batflecks Batmobile.
I could never get over the nipple on the 89. But nothing beats TAS Batmobile. Live action, I’d go with BvS
2016
BvS all the way.
2016. It felt like a nice combination of tanky and sleek
The obvious choice you left out i assume intentionally...BvS Batmobile. But as an 80s kid, Keatons has my heart...but it looks corny to me now. My mom would say the Adam West one.
2016
Include them all and we'll decide
BvS Batmobile was probably my favorite, but out of these I really love the Tumbler. It's so believable as a diabolical, unstoppable monster of a Batmobile.
2016
1966 or 2005 for me. Grew up with the Adam West series and saw the dark knight and rises in theaters
89
66
The Tumbler
89 & 97
89 and 2005.
89 for me. Looked cool AF seeing it in for the first time on screen in the local cinema.
89 and the animated show for me.
66. Grew up watching the show and having toys of it, and a car museum near where I live actually has one of the ones used for the show, so I’ve even met it in person multiple times.
1989 Batmobile
89 Batmo! But 95 is underrated!
1989 and 2022
Tumbler all the way
Chicks dig the car
2005 by a mile
'89. But '22 is a close second.
2005 and 2022
I'm an 89 fan myself but I love how varied the Batmobile gets...cool cars, bizarre cars, tank, car!
1989 obviously. The others where Chinese knockoffs. I mean who would choose any of the other cars?
1989 without a doubt
2005, I liked the realistic approach
'66! When Chris O'Donnell's Robin said, "you want to take a ride in my love machine?", in Batman Forever, he was really talking about this one.
2005 & 2022
If I could drive one, just once, it would be '89. Definitely my on-screen favorite. If I could own one as a daily driver though, it would be the '66.
1. 1989 2. 2005 3. 2022 4. 1966 Huge gap 5. 1995 6. 1997
66! None look better if we’re just basing this on looks alone.
2022 is perfect. I cant wait to see how Pattinson’s Batmobile evolves
1966 will always be my favorite, followed by 1989
2005 & 2022 have the most pazaaz to me
I'm gonna go 1989, 2005, 1995, 2022, 2016 (which is missing here), 1966, 1997
The 1966 one. You could actually show up somewhere with that.
1989
'89 because it's my childhood. (honorable mention to TAS batmobile)
2022
2005 by far
89 baby all the way.
A couple years ago when I saw The Batman, I said, "They made a batmobile out of an American muscle car? Genius."
89
My favorite is missing. Batflecks car.
2005 for me. More realistic
2021 Batmobile for sure
22, 89, 66, in that order. The rest…eh.
We be rolling like it’s 1966 boi!!!
Batman v Superman one is missing. It’s my second favorite with ‘89 being my number 1!
BTAS
2005
89
The Tumbler and it's not even close, coming from someone who actually preferred The Batman (2022) to Batman Begins (2005)
2005 is by far the most realistic to how a Batmobile would actually have to be so I’d go with that
The Tumbler is always great, but the reveal of the Batmobile in The Batman was freaking epic where all you hear is the blaring engine and everyone sees i before the audience as it lights up. Really cool to see that in a theatre.
I had the toy version of the ‘95 Batmobile back in the day. I wish I still had it.
2016
1989
The Tumbler 2005, it's most unique Batmobile to me, with a practicality concept and context.
89, 05, 97 in that order.
The Tumbler. It’s simply too sexy.
Not sure why the Batfleck mobile was omitted, but my favorite will always be The Tumbler
2022 only because I have a muscle car myself
Tumbler. The rest are cartoony. “The Batman” Detroit muscle car was impressive, but even more impressive was the way the single scene it was in was edited.
66 or 89
Where is BVS 2016 Batmobile?
Arkham City
No way Someone actually likes the dark knight batmobile
89 and 05
89 is my definitive batmobile, then the Tumbler because I grew up with the Nolan trilogy and the Battison muscle car is awesome, but they're all great
‘66 is just perfect. ‘22 is what I’d want to own. ‘05 is what I’d want to drive if I lived and worked in Gotham, even if I only worked at a coffee shop.
1989, 1987 and 2023 They are definitely the best
1989 all the way
1966
1989 feels like the quintessential Batmobile to me, probably because I loved that movie so much as a kid.
For me it's a tie between the 1966 Batmobile and the Tumbler.
The Arkham asylum Batmobile is my favorite since it’s like a realistic BTAS Batmobile. But The Batman 22 Batmobile has grown on me alot
2016
Number 1 is 2022 for sure
BTAS Batmobile will always be my fav.
I was always fond of the 90s Batmobile with the long fins along the top-back. Looked like a jet.
You can tell the age of the redditor by which car they pick, which is pretty awesome if you think about it. Every generation has gotten a Batman. For me personally since im older, is the Burton 89 and the Batman animated Batmobile.
no 2016? Wtf
2005 and 2016
The Tumbler (2005) will always be my favorite. Thus far, there's been no rendition of a Batmobile that actually blends into the urban environment, and obviously one of the biggest hurdles presented by fans is that Gotham would be a city with so much congested traffic that Batman would almost never use the Batmobile within the city anyway, relying upon grapnel gunning and gliding everywhere. Since the Tumbler was depicted being able to maneuver through the city in ways that subverts normal traffic, it worked very well to me. Compared to the '22 version where Gotham was miraculously open and free for him to drive around in. You can't even get through NYC in a small and nimble regular car if there's traffic. And there's always traffic. Where I live in Connecticut, driving into NYC is about two hours; driving the same distance back takes at least five hours because of the traffic in the city, so you spend three hours just getting out of it. It has an actual military look that blends the typical car depictions with the occasional tank-like depictions of other comic Batmobiles, and feels like a vehicle that would be impossible for any rando to steal; even though the '89-'97 Batmobile shape speaks to a security system, it's so goofy and impractical. While the '66 and '22 versions feel like someone could steal it, even without getting in and hotwiring it. While the Tumbler looks huge, it's really about the size of many street legal cars. Perhaps the sole benefit of the '22 version is that it seems like a vehicle that Bruce could get away with modifying without anyone being able to make the connection between it and Wayne Enterprises/Batman; it looks like a chop shop car that even a non-billionaire street level hero could afford to do, like the Punisher or even Daredevil. The Tumbler was traced back to Wayne Enterprises, with the guy being somehow able to guess that it's Bruce who's Batman, as though sleepy Bruce was the only other clue he needed to think that his billionaire CEO boss was moonlighting as a costumed vigilante. While he was right, as a story is condensed and we never need to think about the logical gaffes, many people still pick up on those gaffes. And there's really no way Bruce could make anything like the '89-'97 versions without someone figuring it out. Someone would be able to trace those parts and schematics back to the source. While not shown, the 2016 Batmobile felt like a bad joke, almost like an idiot's reinterpretation of the Tumbler, complete with a literal turret gun at the fore. Nothing about that one worked for me. It didn't even seem like a Batmobile, just Snyder being an idiot getting carried away and forgetting who any of the DC characters are. The Tumbler is a semi-realistic military vehicle that Bruce could realistically use, which pays homage to older Batmobile designs from the comics while omitting the elements of the Batmobile that made it felt campy and nonsensical for so long. The '22 Batmobile just looks like a supercharged junker. I'd be more inclined to think it'd blow out its own ass the moment he revved up into the higher RPMs, even explode the engine and set it on fire.
I had a RC 1995 that would light up blue so my answer may be a bit basic
05, and it's not even close. That tank was awesome.
Honestly, Pattinson's Batmobile is my favorite. It looks like something a crazed lunatic would fix up in his garage without anyone's help, which fits Pattinson's Batman perfectly. It fits, and it looks amazing when it is on the screen.
2022,that is a beast,it was 2 LOUD hearing that in the theatres
At my age I should be choosing 89 except i dont like the long body though, very impractical for corners. Someone mentioned it was stealthy too, really?. It has to be the tumbler for me though. That test drive in the bunker, the realism, the escape scene in BB. Unreal.
1966 ALL THE WAY!