► All-electric B95 barchetta gets the Batman treatment
► ‘One-of-one’ model part of the ‘Wayne Enterprises’ collection
► Will make public debut at 2024 Monterey Car Week
Automobili Pininfarina is going full on comic book superhero with its latest project. The team that has created the Battista electric hypercar and B95 barchetta have been unleashing special editions for a while now and this is the latest: the B95 Gotham.
The B95 Gotham is one of four cars in a partnership between DC Comics and Automobili Pininfarina, and it will make its public debut at The Quail, an event within the 2024 Monterey Car Week. The others are a B95 Dark Knight, and a Battista in both the Gotham and Dark Knight specifications.
‘James Bond stands for Aston Martin, and now Automobili Pininfarina stands for Batman,’ chief design officer Dave Amantea tells CAR. ‘And this isn’t just a design exercise but a full experience – the engineering team realised something really special for our customer, and we’ve included the voice of Alfred the butler that welcomes them into the car.’
The Gotham-spec B95 is finished in a combination of a dark metallic grey and black, and features domes that are wrapped in the same high-grade leather seen in the interior. There are Wayne Enterprises logos embossed into those domes, and the B95 Gotham includes new wheel designs not seen before on an Automobili Pininfarina project.
Some of the B95’s exquisite details remain, including the glowing Pininfarina logo and the fins pushing aero over the cockpit that have been inspired by the Ferrari Testarossa.
Naturally, Automobili Pininfarina are jumping head-first into the DC universe by photographing the B95 Gotham alongside the Tumbler from the Christian Bale Batman trilogy, in the huge studio space that was used as a location in those movies, too.
‘This is the way that we communicate to the rest of the world who we are and what we are going to do,’ Amantea tells us, as well as the possibilities and opportunities Automobili Pininfarina have in our pockets.’