Get Your Own Turbine-powered Batmobile for $620,000

" equipped with a monstrous Boeing turboshaft 385 horse-power engine pulled out of a naval drone helicopter"
hows the gas mileage on said batmobile? I guess Bruce Wayne is worried about his carbon footprint

"Jet A, Kerosene, or Diesel fuel"

Diesel? Really???

Umm, so, what's the mileage on this baby? xD

No Bullet Proof skin and rocket launchers like in the movie no sale.

If i was rich id buy it, i mean, how fun can it be to go to a party in the batmobile? .

Is it road legal?

I'd have no problem buying this if I had the cash... I'd have no problem driving around in it with matching batsuit either!

TO THE BATMOBILE!

I bet the heads will turn if I was driving this baby in my home town. Oh yeah, I will be wearing the Batman costume as well, lol.

Well at least it has much better name than the latest McLaren MP4-12C ............ although it will easily outperform the batmobile.

Jet engines will run on practically anything that burns.
Just like diesel engines...

And no, don't expect 30 mpg with this thing, think more like 2-5 mpg =O

But hey, if ur poppin 620k for this thing, fuel price is far far far far far far from ur mind.....

id also wear a mussel suit, and talk in the dark night voice for the lols.

The problem is, you don't want to run out of gas while chasing bad guys, now do you?.

What's the point of the iPad? Does it run the avionics, or do they think it's "cool"?

Same point as any car having an LCD on the dash: entertainment and navigation. Plus, the article CLEARLY states it's used in conjunction with the bat tracers. Duh.

Dude, you would look hilarious driving that thing in a mussel suit.

Even more hilarious than he looked trying to spell "muscle"?

Hopefully they build a the newer Batmobile too. I'd much rather have the new one..
If only I was rich..

You all would be hilarious,you all may as well be the joker!

Right on! CPU666d1,Right on!

Right on! figgus,Right on! Keep on postin !

I sure think so.

this should include the batman outfit!

At 2,800 Lbs I would expect the gas mileage to actually be quite good unless you're stomping on the gas all the time. Ever notice how MPG seems to be mostly effected by weight. Such as a 6 cylinder truck having nearly the same gas mileage as a much larger V8.

Plus with the much higher energy density of Aviation fuel (~44MJ/kg) vs Gasoline (~33MG/kg). I wouldn't be surprised if it hit 20 - 25 MPG highway.

can this baby jump a speed hump?

Not many places in the city where you can buy aviation fuel....

So how much is the car without the iPad? Or how much if it came with an iPad2 instead?

the poor sucker that winds up behind this thing! how much thrust does this thing produce, it's sure to wreck any eco car let alone the guy behind it's mileage.
will be very useful for making many marylin monroe moments in the rear view.

I liked it until I saw the 'ipad'. That's like taking a Ferrari 458, removing the engine, and placing a Corolla engine in there. I would want custom-fit LCD screens and an OS that can actually run all the ancillary systems, not some ipad in the middle of the console.

Look at the interior - it's well done except for the ipad sitting right in the middle like some cheap mod to a used car.

I think its supposed to function more like a turbo-prop, in which the turbine engine provides most of the power by turning a prop as opposed to blowing air like a turbo-fan/jet (or like a turbine engine in a tank). A lot of smaller turbine engines put out exhaust through pipes rather than shooting it out the back

Thats one nice car i tell ya whut.
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If you bothered to read the article you'd have seen that it was. You can't register a car for the road unless it's been inspected and passed as road-legal.



There's a slight mistake you made there, though: gallons are a measure of volume, not mass. You also gave the specific energy (energy per mass) rather than "energy density," which is energy per volume.

These would be interchangeable *if* the two substances were of the same mass-to-volume ratio ("density," or to avoid confusion, "specific gravity") but they are not. Pretty close to all gasoline blends intended for automotive use have a higher specific gravity than other petrolium-based fuels, including aviation gasoline blends. Once you switch to "energy per liter," avgas goes from looking attractive at 44 MJ/kg to only about 31.6 MJ/l.

Of course, for aircraft, this is perfectly fine: weight is the main consideration when designing the things; all aircraft have plenty of empty spaces in them that could easily be used for storing more volume of fuel, but fuel weight dramatically impacts performance. For automobiles, it's the opposite: given their consumption rate and practical driving ranges, the weight of fuel becomes virtually negligible for a car. However, the volume does pose a design concern, especially given the protective measures necessary, given how automotive gasoline is quite possibly the most flammable of all petroleum-derived fuels.

However, you are quite correct on your point with mileage; 2,800 lbs. is less than half the 5,800 lbs. of the infamous Cadillac Escalade, and less than a third that of the 8,600 lbs. of the dreaded Hummer H2.