Billionaire Bruce Wayne’s Pininfarina Battista Photo Gallery
Mark Vaughn
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Automobili Pininfarina has collaborated with Warner Bros. to produce limited-edition versions of the Battista hypercar EV under the brand name Wayne Enterprises. As you may know if you follow the DC Comics series, Wayne Enterprises is the fictional entity run by billionaire Bruce Wayne, AKA Batman. These are ostensibly the cars he would drive—and would probably own the entire set.
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