What is the batpod?
The batpod is intended as a kind of escape pod integrated into the tumbler, it also served an auxiliary vehicle. Armed with dual front-mounted cannons, machine guns and grappling hooks, the batpod affords batman greater mobility at the cost of some protection. Batman may be a fictional character, but his car isn’t. Life-sized drivable replicas of the batman tumbler – a tank-like, off-road vehicle featured in christopher nolan’s the dark knight trilogy – are for sale, though only a finite number were made.The Dark Knight Several months later, Batman parked the Tumbler, which was newly christened the Batmobile, in a parking garage, where he remotely controlled it to fire at some cars in order to intimidate Scarecrow and a Russian mob before Batman himself appeared on the scene.