On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:33:58 -0400, "80 Knight"
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>You know, Ed, it's not often I agree with anything "Anybody" says, but I
>also disagree with the idea of using the Koenigsegg for KITT. I, for one,
>love the 1982 Trans Am. Even to this day, whenever I see one on the
street,
>I think of KITT. The same goes if I see a 1969 Dodge Charger, I think of
the
>"General Lee". However, I understand that they would have to update KITT
to
>a modern car, but why something such as the Koenigsegg? For starters, (in
my
>humble opinion, of course) it is not a very attractive car. It looks
sporty,
>but IMHO, it looks *too* sporty. Yes, KITT was the "car of the future",
but
>KITT was also something that people could go into a dealership and buy
back
>in the 80's when Knight Rider was on. Sure, a Trans Am wasn't in
everyone's
>price range, but the Koenigsegg is barley in anyone's. Plus, KITT was
always
>domestic.
Personally, I don't feel that this was the reason it was done though.
As I've said before, I suspect it was highly budget related. When
you're starting a new series and you don't really know how it's going
to go, you don't get a huge budget to start with. If you know you're
going to be doing stunts with supposedly the same car each week,
you've got to know you can keep supplying them and you've got to think
long and hard about what car you can afford to replace once or twice
per episode. I suspect also, that it was easy to get engineers to work
on the Trans Am too, to fix things up and to create the KITT specific
changes.
I really don't think that the idea was to base it on a car that seemed
quite common to the viewers. I may be wrong, but I've certainly never
read that.
> GM, preferably. I mean no offence to anyone who dislikes GM, or
>who resides in a different country, but KITT was a Pontiac. I was even
>annoyed when they made KITT into a Dodge Stealth, even though I love the
>Stealth's.
>As I said, I for one, would be more then happy to see a 1982 Trans Am on
the
>big screen, however, if they can't use that model, then why not use
>something similar? Perhaps the newest Trans Am? Or maybe wait until GM
>starts rolling out new Trans Am's, and do like Glen Larson did with the
>original show. Use the newest generation of Trans Am. The new Chevy
Camaro
>is coming out in a couple of years (they are building it in the plant I
live
>5 minutes away from), and there is a *lot* of talk around here that the
>Trans Am will follow.
I guess it might seem different if you're an American. The idea of a
Swedish car being the new body for KITT is a little hard to swallow. I
guess you'd still want it to be an American car, and hopefully a newer
Trans Am.
But even so, I'd be *shocked* if they made a modern day Knight Rider
film, and KITT was still based on an 80's Trans Am.
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