They have saved the civilisation from demons and evils. Their vehicles aren't meant for long drives yet they travel across the globe, cosmos and the solar system. As Superman turns on the ignition, Suchayan Mandal details from backseat the superheroes' car fantasies
Superheroes are superior in every aspect. From saving the human race to putting a threat to conventional thinking, they haven't stopped short of anything. And when it comes to conveyance, superheroes choose their own vehicles. From Batman to Spiderman and Wonder Woman to Wolverine, they have their signature cars, specially designed and built. Though superheroes are omnipresent and are blessed with powers to carry them anywhere across the universe, at times they love driving cars because driving is fun.
The fascinating fact is that most of the cars and bikes are actually designed by car manufacturers ~ Porsche and Kia were built just for Detective Comics (DC). Comic freaks aren't letting them go easy. Kia, which has collaborated with DC Entertainment, customises cars for superheroes and regularly gets requests from buyers. Last year, Kia motors developed a car for Superman.
The car's design evolved gradually. It became a "specially built high-powered auto" by DC No 30, and in Batman No 5, it began featuring an ever-larger bat hood ornament and a dark hue. Eventually, the predominant designs included a large, dark-colored body and bat-like accessories, including large tailfins scalloped to resemble a bat's wings.
Batman No 5 (spring 1941) introduced as a long, powerful, streamlined Batmobile with a tall scalloped fin and an intimidating bat head on the front. Three pages after it was introduced, it was forced off a cliff by the Joker to crash in the ravine below. However, an identical Batmobile appeared in the next story in the same issue. In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, the Batmobile has been modified into a tank-like armoured riot control vehicle, complete with machine guns shooting rubber bullets, a large cannon mounted on the front, and large tank treads in place of tyres. According to Batman's narration, the only thing that can penetrate its armour "isn't from this planet". Batman also mentions that it was Dick Grayson, another DC flying character,
who came up with the name. The tank-like vehicle appears to take up two lanes of traffic on a normal road, evidenced when returning from Batman's initial fight with the leader of the Mutants, and thus is too big for normal land travel around Gotham. In the scenes prior to Batman's last stand-off with the Joker, Batman uses a motorcycle to traverse the city, using the tank again after the attempted nuclear strike and fires in Gotham. This Batmobile reappeared in All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder No 4, which shows its construction by robots in the Batcave.
Spider-Man had once visited another fictional character Johnny Storm,better known as the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four's building. Johnny has always been a car aficionado and agreed to help Spider-Man out in delivering a buggy to publicise a company's new non-polluting engine made by Corona Motors. That company was represented by the Carter and Lombardo Agency as they sought out Spider-Man to publicise the new engine in a newly built car as told in Amazing Spider-Man No 126. Spider-Man was surprised, to say the least, when he saw the finished product but grew to like it very much after taking his initial ride in it. As we will see though, things really didn't work
out with the car too well!
The car was very fast and had web-shooters near the pop-up headlights and a spider-signal atop the roll bar. Spider-Man used the Spidermobile in battling some crooks and then Hammerhead. In Amazing Spider-Man No 157, Spider Man jumps back into the river to try and retrieve the Spidermobile as Corona Motors threatened to sue him unless he turned up in the agreed upon vehicle. Underwater, Spider-Man finds only the side-view mirror of the Spidermobile and realises that the rest of the vehicle has disappeared. The Spidermobile doesn't turn up until a couple of issues later in Amazing Spider-Man No 159, where we learn that a mysterious figure is working on it and claims, "Spider-Man will never bother anyone again!" At an unknown date the Spider-Mobile is donated to the Smithsonian Museum. However, it is later seen in the 18th precinct's "superhuman evidence locker", which suggests the exhibit featuring the vehicle was discontinued. In the alternative universe story Old Man Logan, a blind Hawkeye, owns the Spider-Mobile and has customised it with the aid of one of his ex-wives. Hawkeye uses it to transport himself and Logan across the country to make a delivery.
X-Men Blackbird has been destroyed and rebuilt numerous times in the course of the team's many adventures. The later versions incorporated technology created by the mutant inventor Forge, as well as alien (Shi'ar) technology, including weapon systems, holographic active camouflage, and engines capable of hypersonic speeds.
Crossover Utility Vehicle". Although the Man of Steel's abilities to go faster than a speeding bullet and leap tall buildings in a single bound means he won't need a ride to the auto show, that hasn't stopped Kia and DC Entertainment from joining forces to create a suped-up vehicle in Superman's honour.
With the addition of the Superman Optima Hybrid, the parking lot at the Justice League's Hall of Justice is filling up fast. The car is the sixth in a series of Kia vehicles, customised for each member of DC's superhero coalition, the Justice League. The others, which appeared together in 2012 Specialty Equipment Market Association Show in Las Vegas, include a Batman-inspired Optima, a Forte Koup for The Flash, an Aquaman Rio hatchback, a Green Lantern Soul and a Forte hatch for Cyborg. According to Kia and DC, the Justice League line will include seven character cars ~ that likely leaves Wonder Woman as the remaining member to be represented ~ with an eighth and final car incorporating the entire team.
Superheroes are superior in every aspect. From saving the human race to putting a threat to conventional thinking, they haven't stopped short of anything. And when it comes to conveyance, superheroes choose their own vehicles. From Batman to Spiderman and Wonder Woman to Wolverine, they have their signature cars, specially designed and built. Though superheroes are omnipresent and are blessed with powers to carry them anywhere across the universe, at times they love driving cars because driving is fun.
The fascinating fact is that most of the cars and bikes are actually designed by car manufacturers ~ Porsche and Kia were built just for Detective Comics (DC). Comic freaks aren't letting them go easy. Kia, which has collaborated with DC Entertainment, customises cars for superheroes and regularly gets requests from buyers. Last year, Kia motors developed a car for Superman.
Batman
Batman, who operates in the fictional Gotham City, drives his own car, Batmobile. The Batmobile made its first appearance in DC No 27 (May, 1939). A red sedan initially, it was simply referred to as "his car". Soon a bat motif got attached to it, typically including distinctive wing-shaped tailfins. Armored in the early stages of Batman's career, it has been customised over time into a sleek street machine. The vehicle that became the Batmobile was introduced in DC No 27, the first Batman story. During its inception, the vehicle was a simple red convertible with nothing special in its functions. Although the Batplane was introduced in DC No 31, the name "Batmobile" was not applied to Batman and Robin's automobile until DC No 48 (February 1941). Other bat-vehicles soon followed, including the Batcycle, Batboat and Robin's Redbird.The car's design evolved gradually. It became a "specially built high-powered auto" by DC No 30, and in Batman No 5, it began featuring an ever-larger bat hood ornament and a dark hue. Eventually, the predominant designs included a large, dark-colored body and bat-like accessories, including large tailfins scalloped to resemble a bat's wings.
Batman No 5 (spring 1941) introduced as a long, powerful, streamlined Batmobile with a tall scalloped fin and an intimidating bat head on the front. Three pages after it was introduced, it was forced off a cliff by the Joker to crash in the ravine below. However, an identical Batmobile appeared in the next story in the same issue. In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, the Batmobile has been modified into a tank-like armoured riot control vehicle, complete with machine guns shooting rubber bullets, a large cannon mounted on the front, and large tank treads in place of tyres. According to Batman's narration, the only thing that can penetrate its armour "isn't from this planet". Batman also mentions that it was Dick Grayson, another DC flying character,
who came up with the name. The tank-like vehicle appears to take up two lanes of traffic on a normal road, evidenced when returning from Batman's initial fight with the leader of the Mutants, and thus is too big for normal land travel around Gotham. In the scenes prior to Batman's last stand-off with the Joker, Batman uses a motorcycle to traverse the city, using the tank again after the attempted nuclear strike and fires in Gotham. This Batmobile reappeared in All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder No 4, which shows its construction by robots in the Batcave.
Spiderman
Spiderman's signature car, Spidermobile appeared for the first time in Amazing Spider-Man No 130 in 1974. Not only that, Spidermobile has a non-polluting engine, options like Spider-Signal, Web-Shooting, and Seat Ejector Switches to make this vehicle special. It has the ability to camouflage itself by use of a special switch.Spider-Man had once visited another fictional character Johnny Storm,better known as the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four's building. Johnny has always been a car aficionado and agreed to help Spider-Man out in delivering a buggy to publicise a company's new non-polluting engine made by Corona Motors. That company was represented by the Carter and Lombardo Agency as they sought out Spider-Man to publicise the new engine in a newly built car as told in Amazing Spider-Man No 126. Spider-Man was surprised, to say the least, when he saw the finished product but grew to like it very much after taking his initial ride in it. As we will see though, things really didn't work
out with the car too well!
The car was very fast and had web-shooters near the pop-up headlights and a spider-signal atop the roll bar. Spider-Man used the Spidermobile in battling some crooks and then Hammerhead. In Amazing Spider-Man No 157, Spider Man jumps back into the river to try and retrieve the Spidermobile as Corona Motors threatened to sue him unless he turned up in the agreed upon vehicle. Underwater, Spider-Man finds only the side-view mirror of the Spidermobile and realises that the rest of the vehicle has disappeared. The Spidermobile doesn't turn up until a couple of issues later in Amazing Spider-Man No 159, where we learn that a mysterious figure is working on it and claims, "Spider-Man will never bother anyone again!" At an unknown date the Spider-Mobile is donated to the Smithsonian Museum. However, it is later seen in the 18th precinct's "superhuman evidence locker", which suggests the exhibit featuring the vehicle was discontinued. In the alternative universe story Old Man Logan, a blind Hawkeye, owns the Spider-Mobile and has customised it with the aid of one of his ex-wives. Hawkeye uses it to transport himself and Logan across the country to make a delivery.
The X-Men
X-Men's aircraft Blackbird have several incarnations of this craft over the years, with Cyclops and Storm as the main pilots. When the X-Men were first introduced, they were portrayed as travelling in Professor Xavier's private jet and helicopter, advanced but fairly conventional aircraft with remote autopilots (the Professor flew them from home). When the series resumed in 1975, the X-Men were shown using a new strato-Jet that was visually based on a modified, scaled-up version of the Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" spy plane (hence the name), but was modified to carry several passengers. The originalX-Men Blackbird has been destroyed and rebuilt numerous times in the course of the team's many adventures. The later versions incorporated technology created by the mutant inventor Forge, as well as alien (Shi'ar) technology, including weapon systems, holographic active camouflage, and engines capable of hypersonic speeds.
Captain America
Captain America might be one of the most mobility-challenged of all the major superheroes. Sure, he's at the peak of human physical prowess, but that doesn't get you to New Jersey in a hurry. Thankfully, the all-American avenger was outfitted with a seriously sweet motorbike during his 80s adventures. With a customised Harley-Davidson, of course, he hit the road in style.Superman
Kia Motors in Chicago had conceptualised Superman-inspired Optima Hybrid last year. Kia had released a sneak peak of the Cross GT concept, which appeared to be a seven-seat crossover. Superman's Optima is a gasoline-electric hybrid, offering in its European version, a two-litre four-cylinder of 150hp backed by a 40 hp (30kW) electric motor. Both motors power the front wheels via a six-speed automatic transmission. Kia describes the Cross GT concept as "inspired by nature, driven by technology" and stated that it "hints at the future of Kia's design language in the form of a premiumCrossover Utility Vehicle". Although the Man of Steel's abilities to go faster than a speeding bullet and leap tall buildings in a single bound means he won't need a ride to the auto show, that hasn't stopped Kia and DC Entertainment from joining forces to create a suped-up vehicle in Superman's honour.
With the addition of the Superman Optima Hybrid, the parking lot at the Justice League's Hall of Justice is filling up fast. The car is the sixth in a series of Kia vehicles, customised for each member of DC's superhero coalition, the Justice League. The others, which appeared together in 2012 Specialty Equipment Market Association Show in Las Vegas, include a Batman-inspired Optima, a Forte Koup for The Flash, an Aquaman Rio hatchback, a Green Lantern Soul and a Forte hatch for Cyborg. According to Kia and DC, the Justice League line will include seven character cars ~ that likely leaves Wonder Woman as the remaining member to be represented ~ with an eighth and final car incorporating the entire team.
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