Nolanverse Batmobile leaps barrier between film and reality – but it'll cost you

Got a spare $2.9 million lying around? Asking for a friend ...

If you fancy yourself a Batman aficionado – and you have Bruce Wayne levels of spending money sitting around – you could be one of the lucky few to score a working, licensed reproduction of The Tumbler from Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. 

Available through the real-world "Wayne Enterprises Experience," the luxury marque was created in a partnership between Warner Bros. and PR firm Relevance International. When we say The Tumbler is going to be limited to a lucky few, we mean it: Only ten of the vehicles are going to be produced, and even if you can meet the $2.9 million price tag, you can't just buy one.

Interested millionaire playboys can apply for "allocation" of one of the bespoke Tumblers built by Action Vehicle Engineering, with Wayne Enterprises making the ultimate decision on who gets one.

The reimagining of the Batmobile into the angular, military-like combat vehicle first featured in 2005's Batman Begins. Christian Bale, portraying Wayne, cruised the streets of Gotham in a miniature tank capable of jumping off buildings, driving through walls and barricades, deploying anti-vehicle mines and chasing down bad guys in undeniable style. 

Sorry – it's not jet powered, or armed with real guns, obviously – click to enlarge

The Tumbler also had the ability to eject a motorcycle – dubbed the "Batpod" – but it doesn't look like that feature comes standard in this reproduction. 

What does come standard in the Wayne Enterprises Experience Tumbler is a 6.2-liter LS3 powertrain, delivering 525 horsepower and 486 ft-lbs of torque; a body made of a mix of kevlar, carbon fiber, sheet metal and fiberglass; unspecified "advanced software upgrades"; flap actuators and a working smoke-screen delivery system. 

The jet engine on the back of The Tumbler is non-functional, but simulates jet engine noises (sans flames, sorry) – and the vehicle also includes "imitation gun turrets."

"It has an even more commanding presence in real life," Relevance International founder and CEO Suzanne Rosnowski said of the nearly three-ton vehicle. "Owning a Tumbler is the ultimate opportunity to pluck a piece of Batman's world and bring it into reality." 

According to The Tumbler's page on Wayne Enterprises Experience, The Tumbler is being produced as part of the 85th anniversary of Batman's first appearance in Detective Comics. That doesn't mean they'll be ready in time, though – each Tumbler is expected to take 15 months to build from the date a deposit is put down, though we're told delivery could happen sooner.  

This is the only place you'll be allowed to drive The Tumbler, which isn't street legal – that didn't stop Batman though, did it? – click to enlarge

As an additional caveat, The Tumbler isn't street legal, so you'll need space in the wide open countryside adjacent to your manor house and bat cave to cruise around in your Batmobile. That, or just be like Batman and take traffic laws into your own hands. 

If you want to get your hands on some of the other ultra-lux products sold by the Wayne Enterprises Experience – such as a $20k Batchair, the $250k Stormy Knight jetski, a $16.5k pair of Arma Instruments closed-network communication devices, or for those looking for more of Batman's personal kit, an $810 replica of The Dark Knight's grappling gun (non-working, sadly) – you can find them all at "Mr Wayne's" website. 

Purchases don't come with a guarantee of transformation into a suave, wealthy, crime-fighting martial arts master, of course. ®