A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about a motorcycle modeled on the lightcycles from Tron: Legacy.  And while that’s a cool vehicle, it doesn’t quite have the cache as the Batmobile.

Now, I am not talking about “the Tumbler” from Christopher Nolan’s run on the Batman saga because it’s too big, too brawny and way too impractical for anything that can be considered “normal” use.

Now, Tim Burton’s Batmobile, that’s another matter.  It’s not significantly any more practical than The Tumbler (good luck finding a parking space, if you’re inclined to take it outside), and the lack of ground clearance virtually guarantees that you aren’t going to spend a lot of time driving it on typical city roads.

And while the Tumbler is all about brawn and sheer force, Burton’s Batmobile is about image.  It’s relatively sleek, like a big, black, land-going shark, and says, “Don’t frak with me” just by standing still.

Besides, it’s virtually a stealth fighter compared to the massive Tumbler.

It almost looks like a car that, if Batman decided to trade up, that he could find a buyer in Darth Vader, or some other supremely evil, misunderstood villain.

And it could be yours if you have a spare $620,000 dollars lying about about.