If we’re not mistaken the batpod first saw action in 2008’s The Dark Knight, where Heath Ledger played the role of a lifetime... quite literally. This strange and wonderful design for a battle motorcycle came out as half of a destroyed tumbler.
Getting back to 2012, a man with a ratchet, scrap metal and a moped engine built the batpod on a budget in Vietnam. It’s a bit smaller, but that beefy look is kept by using car tires, much wider than motorcycle ones. Even the stance of the ride is the same!
In the last movie of the trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, a mercenary named Bane gets hold of Bruce Wayne’s arsenal of military weapons, including three army tumbler tanks and uses them to terrorize Gothem. The whole city is held hostage using a makeshift nuclear bomb, and towards the end of the movie Selina Kyle (catwoman) uses the batpod to clear a path out of the city.
We wonder if Selina would ever get on the Vietnamese batpod!
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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