DarkMagic
Super Freak
To scale, the Batmobile should be over 3 feet 7/12 inches long. I guarantee you that it isn't that long, therefore it is short from that standpoint. Proportionally, it looks like it is too short compared to it's width. If you are fairly adept at eyeballing things, you can tell this. As an artist, I need to be able to gert proportions right, so I am quicker than most people at eyeballing proportions, and as there are other artists here, they can do the same.
I'm an artist too. As an artist you should know all about the tricks of perception that perspective can play on our eyes, and even on cameras, as I already explained in this post: https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3641796&postcount=397
The reason it is too small is to so it isn't too big for most people's collections. A correctly sized one would eliminate about 70% of potential buyers. It is also smaller to lower cost.
Was the Hot Toys Tumbler correctly sized? I know the 1989 Batmobile is a longer vehicle, but if the Tumbler wasn't squished at all and it sold out completely, why would Hot Toys be worried that a correctly scaled 1989 Batmobile wouldn't also sell out?
The original movie car was a pearl silverish color, as sourced from Terry Ackland Snow, who built it. All colors look different in different lights, and so the darker the lighting, the blacker the 89 Batmobile gets.
I don't really know whether the car was supposed to look black or not, but most people expect it to be. The real pearl color of the car would become obvious in broad daylight, and so if some people saw it then, they would believe that the car was painted a different color than it was in the movie, because they could never really tell what color it was in the film, and simply assumed that it was black. (They assume this even though you could easily see the contours of the car much easier at night than you could ever see, if the car was REALLY painted black. A lot of people don't think about this, and still assume that it was black.)
This color is as close to the real color of the car as red is similar to orange. If you wanted to film a red Ferrari at night and wanted it to look red on film, you couldn't paint it red, you would have to paint it red orange, or orange instead, because at night, red looks like dark maroon. What color would the car be, REALLY? Is it specially painted orange car used in the movie, or is it just the regular Ferrari red, Rosso Corsa painted Ferrari? It is a matter of opinion.
Thanks for the explanation of the color, it seems to be basically in agreement with my point towards people that gripe that the color is inaccurate...inaccurate to what particular scene or photo exactly? It's mostly subjective when it comes to colors for real objects.