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The Garage of Justice (The Batmobiles) · Alana Unleashed

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  I'm Alana Ace, and today we're breaking down
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  the most expensive part of the Wayne Enterprises
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  budget, the Batmobile. We're looking at turbines,
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  tanks, and the physics of the chase. Welcome
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  to Alana Unleashed. Let's start with the Keaton
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  89 in the Batman The Animated Series cars. These
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  are land jets. What do I mean by that? Well,
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  we'll get into that shortly. Essentially, they
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  use turbine engines, specifically the 89 version.
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  It used components from a Rolls -Royce jet engine.
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  The benefit? Rust -to -weight ratio. On a straight
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  Gotham freeway, you're hitting 200 -plus miles
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  per hour in seconds. But let's look at the pitfalls
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  of a 20 -foot car with a 15 -foot wheelbase.
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  The turning radius? It's essentially that of
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  a cruise ship. In a city of tight corners, well,
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  this car is a nightmare. Batman uses the grappling
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  hook turn to cheat the laws of physics, but in
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  reality, at high speeds, that much force would
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  likely shear the chassis in half or rip the anchor
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  point straight out of the masonry. Furthermore,
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  the heat coming off that rear -end turbine would
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  melt the bumper off any car following too closely.
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  It's an engineering disaster. You can't park
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  it. You can't turn it, and you're essentially
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  driving a giant fuse. Does it look cool? Yes.
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  Is it practical? Not really. In 2026, we look
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  at the 89 car as a relic of aero -style engineering.
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  It's built for the drag strip, not the urban
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  sprawl. If you take a 20 -foot car into a Gotham
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  alleyway, you aren't fighting crime. You're doing
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  a 50 -foot turn while the Joker gets away. The
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  animated series version is slightly more stylized,
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  but it suffers from the same long nose syndrome.
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  The visibility from the cockpit would be abysmal.
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  You're sitting 10 feet behind the front tires.
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  Good luck hitting an apex in that. Don't get
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  me wrong, I love both of these cars, but they're
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  just not practical. Then, of course, the philosophy
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  shifted. Enter the Tumbler. It was designed as
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  a military bridging vehicle. Benefit, the suspension.
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  It can jump 30 -plus feet without a ramp by using
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  a jet flap to lift the nose, and then it uses
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  an active suspension system that distributes
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  weight instantly to prevent the axles from snapping
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  on impact. It's the ultimate urban predator.
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  But the pitfall? Stealth. A turbine engine is
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  incredibly loud. You can hear it from six blocks
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  away. Batman is supposed to be a silent creditor,
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  but this car, it's essentially a 100 decibel
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  announcement of his arrival. The BVS Batmobile
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  tried to fix this by lowering the profile and
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  adding active aerodynamics. The benefit? Lower
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  center field of gravity. The pitfall? Well, the
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  ground clearance. The tumbler can drive over
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  a concrete barrier. The BVS car would bottom
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  out and crack its carbon fiber tub. In 2026,
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  we'd solve this with active ride height. Using
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  high -speed sensors, the car could lower itself
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  for the highway and lift itself four inches the
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  second it detects a curb or debris. It's a tech
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  we see in modern supercars today, just scaled
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  up for technical use. The BVS car is the most
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  realistic midpoint, but it still lacks the sheer
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  ruggedness of the Tumbler for a city as broken
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  as Gotham. The 2022 Robert Pattinson Batmobile
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  represents another major ideological split, a
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  return to the muscle car. It's the most logical
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  engine choice for a street -level vigilante in
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  a world without access to military budget. It's
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  a pursuit vehicle built on a stripped -down,
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  high -performance chassis. similar to the 1960s
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  Batmobile. The benefit? Practicality and speed.
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  It sacrifices the heavy armor of the Tumbler
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  for a raw, uncompromising power -to -weight ratio.
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  A front -mounted engine is easier to maintain
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  and repair in a hurry than a hidden turbine.
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  This car is built for sustained high -speed chase
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  and pit maneuvers. It's a road warrior, not a
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  tank. But the pitfall? The exposed engine. That's
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  massive. The roaring engine in the back is a
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  beautiful piece of design, but it's an engineering
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  liability. In a combat scenario, it is a single,
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  massive exposed target. A lucky shot to the air
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  intake or the fuel line in your primary asset
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  is now a fireball. Furthermore, the car's aesthetic
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  is so brutal and raw that it lacks any element
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  of stealth. You hear this car coming a mile away.
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  It's the ultimate trade -off. unparalleled acceleration
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  in a straight line, or complete vulnerability
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  to gunfire. We finish with a Batman Beyond hover
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  car. In 2026, eVTOL's electric vertical takeoff
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  and landing, Terry's car is a logical conclusion.
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  The benefit? Verticality. You solve the traffic
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  problem. Pitfall? Aerodynamics. The car, shaped
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  like a logo, is a nightmare to stabilize in the
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  high -altitude winds between Gotham's skyscrapers.
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  Without advanced fly -by -wire stabilizers, one
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  goes to win and you're a falling brick. Furthermore,
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  flight requires massive amounts of energy. While
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  Bruce's cars could run on high -octane fuel or
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  electric turbines, a flying Batmobile? Well,
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  it needs a power density that allows for sustained
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  lift and high -speed pursuit. If your battery
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  hits 10 % while you're 50 stories up, you aren't
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  a hero, you're a hazard. So, what do you guys
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  think about the breakdown of the Batmobiles?
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  I'm Alana Ace, and thanks for hanging out in
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  the interwebs with me today. You guys are the
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  want this show to be a conversation, so please,
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  see you at the next save point.