"The Batmobile or the Mach Five?" Topic

This topic was inspired by the recent releases of the beautifully rendered 1/64 (actually 1/55) scale diecast vehicles, produced by Hot Wheels (1966 Batmobile) and Jada Toys (Mach Five). Here are the features of each car:

The 1966 Batmobile

- Mobile Batcomputer (in trunk)
- Batzooka (those three chrome pipes on the rear deck)
- Batphone
- Batscope (on-board tracking radar)
- Bat Ram (battering ram)
- Bat Ray (projectors next to each headlight)
- Emergency Bat-Turn (swings the Batmobile 180º while in motion)
- Bat Beam (tighter beam than the Bat Ray)
- Emergency Tire Inflator
- In-car fire extinguisher
- Bat Smokescreen
- Bat Photoscope (created printouts of whatever info Batman needed)

And many other devices not yet known.

The Mach Five

- Automatic jacks (button A)
- Special belted grip tires (button B)
- Two rotating cutters (button C)
- Bulletproof, crashproof cockpit glass (button D)
- Infrared headlights (button E)
- Underwater capability, complete with periscope and 30-minute air supply (button F)
- Flying homing robot (button G, with a button H to send it home)
- Two-way radio in glove compartment (a feature not often mentioned)

So, which is your rod of choice?

The big strikes against the mach Five are Chim-Chim and Spirtle hanging out in the trunk. They gots ta go.

The Bat mobile was a real car that actually went to car shows. The other one I've never even heard of.

Dangermouse's Mark VII, all the way.

I grew up watching that Batmobile and there is no way to beat the coolness of flames coming out of the back end. I even had a Matchbox car of it where the wheels made a little orange plastic flame move as the car rolled.

I didn't see Speed Racer cartoons until much much later so even though the Mach 5 can do cool things, it wasn't part of my childhood.

The Mach 5 has Trixie, the Batmobile Cat woman. 'Nuf said

Of those two, definitely Batmobile. It's black, it has big fins, it's just cool.

The rod of choice for me really would be the Hong Kong Phooeymobile. That could do anything/be anything and it was totally indestructible.

Batmobile all the way. And the 1966 Batmobile is SO much cooler than any that followed.

Mach 5 all the way!
Climbs sheer walls, and can be a sub!

Batmobile.

Dadadadadadadada… BATMAN!

James Bond's Aston Martin DB5

"James Bond's Aston Martin"

James Bond never had a car for more then 2 hours before it explodes. No way man. My rod needs durability… :)

I prefer the Mach 5; a chick named Trixie who rides in the trunk is a good thing. BTW, in Japan, Trixie was Speed's girl friend and not his sister. Primary source beats secondary source. 'nough said. :)

There is a Company in California that will make you street legal Mach 5 based off a Corvette chassis with a big block V8 engine for power. Sorry, it doesn't have the Super grip tires, tree clearers, underwater capabilty, but I do think you can get a RC flying bird…

So if you have between $150-200K you too can drive the Mach 5. And as a added plus, they DON"T sell a chimp to go with the car.

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The Mach 5 has Trixie, the Batmobile Cat woman. 'Nuf said

So you've never heard that rather risque remix of the Speed Racer theme song with select clips of the American dubbing, then?

Trixie or the Cat Woman; depends on if you like to drive.

Q branch DB5 or Vanquish. Everything else is fluff

a chick named Trixie who rides in the trunk is a good thing. BTW, in Japan, Trixie was Speed's girl friend and not his sister. Primary source beats secondary source. 'nough said. :)

In Hollywood the two are not mutually exclusive options.