The Batmobile’s Guttural Roar From the Set Confirms It’s Still a Monster in ‘The Batman Part II’
Matt Reeves has spent months quietly rebuilding his brooding vision of Gotham City for ‘The Batman: Part II‘ on the streets of Glasgow, and this week the production finally gave fans exactly what they’d been waiting to hear as much as see. Set videos and photos have steadily trickled out documenting the Batmobile’s return, but the latest footage adds an entirely new sensory dimension to the vehicle’s menace.
That new detail comes down to sound. New footage from the Glasgow shoot captures the Batmobile’s engine roaring through the city’s slush-covered streets as it performs high-speed drifts and donuts, with a camera rig mounted to the back of the car giving fans an especially visceral look at the vehicle in motion.
That guttural roar isn’t just movie magic, either. According to MotorBiscuit, the physical stunt cars used on set are reportedly powered by heavily modified Chevy LS V8 engines producing more than 650 horsepower, giving the vehicle its distinctive, aggressive sound as it tears through Gotham’s winter streets. In the film’s own internal lore, that engine is described as a massive, twin-turbocharged V8 fitted with a jet afterburner, a fittingly over-the-top detail for a car built around raw power rather than sleek gadgetry.
Production designer James Chinlund built the vehicle to reflect a younger, angrier Bruce Wayne, someone MotorBiscuit describes as “a true gearhead” who welded the car together himself in a subterranean garage. That approach continues distinguishing Pattinson’s Batmobile from previous iterations of the character, favoring a raw, muscle-car aesthetic over Christian Bale’s military-grade Tumbler or Michael Keaton’s sleek art deco machine.
Alongside the engine footage, the newly surfaced clips also reveal several Gotham City Police Department vehicles on set, including a GCPD SWAT van spotted nearby. Given that the Batmobile is already known to sustain heavy damage at some point during the story, having police vehicles positioned so close to the action hints that Gotham’s finest may still be actively hunting Batman down as the sequel’s story unfolds.
That damage has already been partially confirmed through separate set photos showing the Batmobile with a noticeable dent along its side while sitting on a transporter, according to SuperHeroHype’s earlier coverage of the shoot. Whatever event causes that damage remains under wraps, but its presence alongside this new footage of the car in aggressive motion suggests the sequel is building toward some genuinely destructive set pieces.
Robert Pattinson has previously teased just how different this next chapter will feel compared to the original film. Speaking about the script, he said, “The script is so good. It’s kinda crazy, because the first one was a little bit of a different type of Batman movie, and this is a really different type of Batman movie. Hopefully, people will be really pleasantly surprised by it.”
The Glasgow shoot spans a three-week window across several key locations, including the Broomielaw, the Glasgow Bridge, the Kingston Bridge, North Street, and the National Cycle Route along the River Clyde, following earlier filming in Liverpool. Robert Pattinson returns as Batman alongside Jeffrey Wright, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell, Sebastian Stan, and Scarlett Johansson, with “The Batman Part II” currently set for a February 18, 2028 release.
Given how much attention the Batmobile alone has generated across just a handful of set videos, hearing that signature engine roar in full only raises expectations further for what Reeves and his team are building toward.
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