---
title: "Holy Snap Oversteer, Batman! Tuner Built a Toyota MR2-Based Batmobile"
description: "No one is safe from hard times. Not even Bruce Wayne."
date: "2020-05-19"
modified: "2020-05-19"
authors:
  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/33525/holy-snap-oversteer-batman-tuner-built-an-mr2-based-batmobile"
categories:
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  - "News by Brand"
  - "Toyota News"
tags:
  - "Toyota"
---

# Holy Snap Oversteer, Batman! Tuner Built a Toyota MR2-Based Batmobile

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Popular for their affordability and mid-mounted engines, Toyota MR2s have been the subject of every style of modification imaginable, ranging from performance-enhancing to purely aesthetic. How well these mods are executed also varies wildly, with coming out [lust-worthy](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/32913/what-the-world-needs-now-is-a-beautiful-widebody-toyota-mr2-build>) while others [beg to be torched.](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/22877/somebody-wants-6400-for-a-toyota-mr2-they-ruined>) Somewhere in between these two is the budget Batmobile you see here, which toes the thin line between awesome and atrocious.

Inspired by [the jet-powered hero car from the Dark Knight's 1989 silver-screen outing](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/30698/680000-will-get-you-the-worlds-only-turbine-powered-street-legal-batmobile>), this Batmobile is the combination of a second-generation MR2, a set of scissor doors, and what looks like the contents of an HVAC contractor's dumpster. It wouldn't look out of place at the [24 Hours of Lemons](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/28476/the-top-10-wonderfully-horrible-race-cars-of-the-2019-24-hours-of-lemons-b-f-e-gp>) or its associated rallies, and for good reason; this Batmobile was built to be driven in a "banger rally," which is what the Brits call a road rally for cars costing £500 or less.

Like most things European, banger rallies seem to predate our Yank equivalent, though, in spirit, they boil down to the same thing. Take a cheap car, try to drive it several hundred or thousands of miles, hopefully write-off the trip as a business expense, and then raise some money for a charity along the way. The builders of this MR2 won't get to enter this car in such a rally until late September when the [2020 Koper or Bust](<https://www.bangerrallychallenge.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR2UAvh7mz0Bb11-gTriVFI6RpMIKW1F7SubMBzenG99bsMbvmugPVRJ9l0>) sets off toward Slovenia, though they haven't waited to start raising money.

During a brief tour of British cities this past Sunday, the owner of this car raised the small, but tidy sum of £509 for a pair of healthcare charities. It may not be much, but more than most people contributed to the world with their Sundays, and it made a few people smile along the way to boot. And last time we checked, that's kind of the point.

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## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

### Author social links  
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