Acura Introduces Limited Edition Batman-Inspired TLX Type S PMC Edition

Lurking within the lengthy shadows of each good gearhead’s coronary heart is the will to drive like Batman. Whether it is the swooping curves of Michael Keaton’s Art Deco masterpiece or the snarling sheet-metal muscle automobile Robert Pattinson (Battinson?) blasts throughout Gotham pavement, essentially the most fantastic of the Caped Crusader’s fantastic toys looms giant within the motoring public’s creativeness.

In excellent news for automobile nerds all over the place, Acura has stepped as much as ship a buyable Batmobile. A brand new spin on the TLX Type S PMC Edition, Acura’s top-end sports activities sedan, will probably be getting a really restricted run within the Caped Crusader’s favourite colour: “Gotham Gray.” 

Just 50 of the PMC Edition TLXes will probably be shipped within the restricted version matte grey, which devoted motorheads will acknowledge because the signature shade of the NSX Type R. A sports activities sedan rocking a supercar’s chosen colour, namechecking a superhero within the course of, is a critical flex. Acura has integrated quite a lot of small enhancements in type and performance to ensure the TLX does justice to its formidable forebears.

Acura’s Performance Manufacturing Center in Marysville, Ohio — PMC to its mates — is the corporate’s skunkworks, a producer of performance-spec reworks of luxurious fashions within the mould of Mercedes’s AMG. The TLX PMC Edition Gotham Gray, due to this fact, is a restricted run of a restricted run, precisely the form of high-performance, low-quantity road-and-track toy Bruce Wayne would insist on. 

Per the Acura press launch, the Gotham Gray TLX has up to date the automobile’s visuals for optimum model, pointing up the matte metallic grey with black thrives on door handles, door sills, and exhaust, plus black Y-spoke wheels straight off the NSX. The Batworthy exterior aesthetic contrasts with a lethally trendy Red Milano inside. Carbon fiber parts and distinction stitching keep the automobile’s sinister cool all through. 

Just in case issues did not really feel unique sufficient, there may also be an individually-numbered plaque on the decrease console, demonstrating the automobile is considered one of simply 50 of its sort. Acura introduced the TLX Type S PMC Edition Gotham Gray on March 14 and will probably be promoting the restricted run of fifty at $65,000 apiece this spring. If you’ve got bought Wayne Manor cash, purchase one for the brooding vigilante in your life.