When the Segway was introduced back in ‘01, the New Hampshire based company swore their invention would revolutionize the way people get around. Inventor Dean Kamen even went on record saying the Segway will “be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.” Suffice to say, dude was buggin’.
Seven years later, less than 40,000 have been sold and people are still getting from point A to point B the same damn way. So it’s kinda surprising that the worlds largest automaker, Toyota, would even think of building a Segway competitor. But they did, and it’s called the Winglet…
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Unless they possessed the gift of flight, most of our childhood heroes had a sick set of wheels. The A-Team had their GMC Vandura van, the Ghostbusters had the Ecto-1, Michael Knight had KITT and Batman had the Batmobile.
Although most of those cars were nothing more than civilian cruisers with a heavy helping of fiberglass and stickers, we all thought, at one point or another, that it’d be dope to see ‘em burn rubber in person. Toyota’s Racing squad and Warner Bros. had the same idea when they brought the Tumbler to Silverstone raceway in Northamptonshire, England last week for a few laps against its F1 racecar. There might not have been any fire coming from the tailpipe, but it was cool to see the Batmobile driving around someplace other than Gotham City. After the jump check out some footage of the Tumbler at Silverstone.
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