In article <i50bg2tnf9pr0ec4m27pq6i87eh3q1cult@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Ed Chilada
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> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:02:32 +1200, Anybody
> <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >In article <0nu7g2tkjkvqies8uo382pfo7p3p9pc4n2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Ed Chilada
> ><nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:43:07 -0400, "Wombat-Pipex-News"
> >> <wombat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Just dont think that a vampet up plastic molded peace of ****e
modern car
> >> >will do the trick. The Trans-am styling was almost Perfect.
> >>
> >> For 30+ years ago!
> >
> >It's still a great looking car. Most of the "supercars" are far too
> >wide and many of today's more normal s****ts cars are simply ugly.
>
> Whether it's great looking is irrelevant. It's *dated*
It doesn't look "dated" though. It is still a great looking car (of
course that's just opinion-based, so your's may be different).
> and it's not
> even been in production for .. how many years?
So it hasn't been in production!?? So what, neither are most of the
cars in TV shows.
The point is that KITT is that car. Changing it would be extremely
stupid ... not that it stops Hollyweird doing it of course, just look
at all the awful remakes / updates where they have a hopeless new actor
playing the old role. Some idiot even wanted KITT to not talk. :-(
> >> > Dukes of Hazard car is what makes Dukes of Hazard and
> >> > the movie. Same goes for Starskey and Hutch.
> >>
> >> Neither of which were supposed to have *futuristic* cars.
> >
> >There's your mistake. KITT was never meant to be a "futuristic car" -
>
> "I am the prototype of the car of the future" (KARR actually, but same
> appearance of course).
KARR and KITT are two different characters. The only "futuristic"ness
about either is the ability to drive themselves, etc. The actual look
of the cars was normal.
> >it was meant to be a normal looking car with "futuristic" abilities.
>
> Huh? So how come it had a red scanner across the front? Hardly normal
> looking!
But few people actually notice it. :-)
> >That's why they used a TransAm in the first place and not some silly
> >looking prototype / custom car.
>
> Please provide a reference for this. I largely suspect that basing it
> on a production model was mostly budget related.
If it was budget-realted, then they would have used something like a VW
Beetle that is cheaply available by the ton.
> Oh, and you'll find that the Koenigsegg isn't a "prototype / custom",
> car. It's a current production model (albeit exotic), that is simply
> from this century, not the last one.
And that's the entire point. KITT is from the 1980s, so it's pointless
putting him in a new body. If you change the car, then it is not KITT.
Just like all the other useless remakes / updates coming out of
Hollyweird. Fro example, Thomas Magnum is Tom Selleck, any other acting
is simply a pretender and will completely change the character and the
movie / show would not actually be "Magnum PI", just some awful "new"
version of it.
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