In recognition of the upcoming release of "The Dark Night" from Warner Bros Entertainment, I thought it was a nice time to reflect upon some Batman history. This Batmobile was used in the most recent movie from the Batman franchise, Batman Begins. It will be used again in The Dark Night with some small modifications. More info from wikipedia: The Batmobile depicted in the 2005 film Batman Begins owes more to the tank-like vehicle from Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns than to the sleek automobiles seen in previous incarnations. The film's production designer described the machine as being a cross between a Lamborghini and a Hummer. In that film, Bruce Wayne modifies a military vehicle known as the Tumbler, and the vehicle is never referred to as the "Batmobile." When Batman asks Gordon to aid him in stopping Ra's al Ghul, he asks "can you drive a stick?" However, in the various interior sequences of the Batmobile/Tumbler being driven, it appears to drive not like a manual transmission automobile, but rather, a boat, based on throttle placement, use, and construction. Six individual Batmobiles were built for filming in the movie, each with a special purpose to meet the various stunt needs of the film: two regular, full-size driving Batmobiles for exterior shots; one full-size model with hydraulics for the jump sequences; one full-size functional vehicle with propane tanks to fuel the rocket blast out of the rear nozzle and a 1/3-scale radio-controlled electric model for the most involved stunts in the film (e.g. the roof-top chase sequence). These scenes were filmed on a massive set built on a stage at Shepperton Studios over the course of 9 weeks. The Tumbler returns in The Dark Knight.erein the vehicle was a long, low machine inspired by art deco design style of the film series. As the 1990s Batman films were handed over to director Joel Schumacher, the design for the Batmobile became increasingly implausible, as decorative lighting was added to the vehicle's rims and front edge, and the wing-shaped fins reached further into the air. Although this article has claimed "The Joel Shumacher designs also lacked a passenger seat, the vehicles only able to transport their driver" if you look closely at the footage where Batman jumps down into the car you can clearly see two seats, also the throttle is mounted on a ridge not too dissimilar from a drive train ridge in a car . Batman Forever was originally supposed to have a Batmobile designed by famed designer H. R. Giger, but Giger backed out of the project when Warner Brothers rejected his design.