On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:38:26 GMT, Ed Chilada <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:57:46 -0400, "80 Knight"
><80_knightREMOVEMEPLEASE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>"Ed Chilada" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:bdukg2tane1acddg0q2a33rtd35dl2fk46@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:19:33 -0400, "80 Knight"
>>> <80_knightREMOVEMEPLEASE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Jason Sobol" <musicmanason@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>>news:26441$4509f491$438c5528$14473@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> >Whether it's great looking is irrelevant. It's *dated* and it's not
>>>>>>even been in production for .. how many years?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> the car has only been out of production FOUR years, the design used
in
>>>>> KR
>>>>> ended in 1984 (85-90 and 91-92s were a different design on the same
>>>>> body...just updated) and the 3rd gens have been gone 14.
>>>>>
>>>>> Im not about to sit here and argue about your "dated" comments. 3rd
Gens
>>>>> still are decent looking cars, albeit not as sleek as the 4th Gen,
but
>>>>> still good for the car that it is.
>>>>>
>>>>> Feel free to share your opinion with us, but dont start to flame
people
>>>>> who dont necessarily agree with you. The scanner was an addition to
the
>>>>> car, if you remember the 1st couple of episodes, they used it with a
>>>>> stock
>>>>> 82 T/A nose, and it blended in quite well
>>>>
>>>>If they absolutely *had* to use a newer car, I could accept a newer
Trans
>>>>Am. KITT will still always be a 1982, but I do think the 2002's are
still
>>>>much like the 1982's.
>>>
>>> They did that with KR2000?
>>
>>Naw. KITT in "KR:2000" was a Dodge Stealth, made to look like a Pontiac
>>Banshee (which, was only ever a concept car, if memory serves).
>
>Ah! OK, I thought it was based on a 4th gen Trans-Am, as pictured
>here:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Trans_Am
>
>
Calling it a Dodge Stealth isn't really fair; it's a custom
car built using the frame of a stealth; the body is custom.
The similarity to the 4th gen trans am is not accidental; the custom
body used for the Knight 4000 was based on the Banshee, Pontiac's
big concept car of the time. Some of the styling in the 4th gen was
first tried out on the Banshee -- the 4th gen trans am design is
basically what you end up with if you take a Banshee and turn it into
something that would be practical to mass-produce as a normal car
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