Comment Re:Herbie the Love Bug? (Score 4, Informative) 33
The Towle test is:
1) The character must generally have physical as well as conceptual qualities.
2) The character must be sufficiently delineated to be recognizable as the same character whenever it appears. It must display consistent, identifiable character traits and attributes, although the character need not have a consistent appearance.
3) The character must be especially distinctive and contain some unique elements of expression. It cannot be a stock character like a magician in standard magician garb.
The Batmobile was determined to pass the test. Herbie would, by that same token, probably qualify as a character in a way that this Mustang did not.