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Avqust 1, 2008
New "Attack Mode" KITT
By David
aka Highspeedhijinks
The 2008 Comic-Con wrapped up this past weekend, and it was there that the new KITT "attack mode" was revealed to the horde of superfans in attendance. Later it was announced that it was voted "Best Vehicle" of Comic-Con, taking the crown against Bond’s DBS and a GI Joe digging contraption.
Personally, I think this thing looks like a bunch of different race cars thrown together and it makes for one confused-looking KITT. The crazy polished blower scoop and rear tires look to have been yanked from an NHRA dragster. The "Car of Tomorrow" chin spoiler and side dump exhaust show signs of NASCAR influence. Then there’s the lambo doors and side scoops that were probably stolen off the set of Fast and Furious. Follow it up with some Bonneville Salt Flats racer wheels and you’ve got a car that might be able to do 377 mph in a straight line, but it sure as hell isn’t turning.
Clearly KITT has come a long way from the old "super pursuit mode," but I can’t help thinking it’s a bit of overkill. What do you think? Am I taking a fictional car too seriously or is this car really just too silly for your average TV action-drama? See more pics after the jump, and a ton more Comic-Con coverage at Knight Rider Online.
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Məxfi
Nov 2, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I like the new Knight Rider Car!
hhh
Oct 16, 2008 at 3:25 pm
new kitt’s fish ball type voice modulator looks stupidly awful & fugly!
wat happen to the iphone type voice in the pilot movie??
bonestockcivic
Oct 8, 2008 at 8:37 pm
to you who is bitching about the fact that people want this to be a TA, SHUT THE FUCK UP. The reason they’re bitching is because it completely defiles the previous legacy. You’d probably hear the same people bitching if the new Dukes of Hazzard movie used a chevelle or GTO. It makes fucking sense, so why don’t you reach back and pull that blue oval out of your ass and stop getting so damn defensive you fucking prick.
charged
Aug 26, 2008 at 3:27 am
to every1 who is bitching about how the car looks its a comic car so quit hating and enjoy its just a car that was created for a tv show. kinda like those p.o.s. ricers that are featured in fast and furious. my personal opinion is that’ “who needs all the lights and extra weight of a ground effect kit when its all about whats underneath the hood and who’s driving.”
Məxfi
Aug 6, 2008 at 12:36 am
omg i love it
murph40
Aug 5, 2008 at 5:27 am
http://www.allfordmustangs.com/photopost/data/3243/Lambo-Doors-So-Played-Out.jpg
enjoy.
Məxfi
Aug 5, 2008 at 12:44 am
All of you who are bitching that the original KIT was a TA, well maybe if there was a TA still around TODAY they would have used one. Hmmmmmm, where are the camaros and firebids??? exactly. The mustang stomped all of them. They no LONGER EXIST. SO if they were that great, i am sure they would still be around. Turns out they are not. Fuck your nonexistent TAs and stop bitching, they are no longer around cuz they are shit. the Mustang is way cooler.
Məxfi
Aug 5, 2008 at 12:41 am
That has to be the ugliest thing i have ever seen. And i LOVE mustangs. Not only that, but this “badass attack car” is an AUTOMATIC! WTF!!! Whoever helped design this car should be murdered.
SSchevyBoy
Aug 4, 2008 at 7:32 pm
For a car that is just for looks, they didnt do a bad job. But they skimped on the interior, KITT had a fully custom dash. And it was a TRANS-AM, has noone seen the new Camaro and its concept counterpart the trans-am version, They’ve been essentially the same car since they were made. That would’ve only made sense and that just cant be done. GM all the way baby.
Nick
Aug 4, 2008 at 4:57 pm
All i have to say is Mustang…Really..That’s what would turn a great series into a movie joke…WoW
anon
Aug 4, 2008 at 3:50 pm
the front looks SICK but everything from the doors to the back is UGLY!! it will probably look cooler in action. and that snow globe thing will probably be some sort of high tech touch computer thing. can’t wait for the show to start!
TW
Aug 4, 2008 at 1:00 pm
More plastic than Pamela Anderson and Joan Rivers combined…
bob le douche
Aug 4, 2008 at 12:34 pm
wow…a fucking automatic, how pathetic
Maffew
Aug 4, 2008 at 12:17 pm
the new knight rider is based in Mexico? Wow, didn’t know that….
Jordan
Aug 4, 2008 at 10:23 am
fuck that kit is a TA! not a fucking ford
7urtle
Aug 4, 2008 at 5:55 am
good idea bad execution
Mike
Aug 4, 2008 at 5:37 am
LOL this is what I call a backward offset… let’s put rims with a higher diameter in the front and rims with a smaller diameter in the back =S
Məxfi
Aug 4, 2008 at 5:34 am
it looks ok
you need some changes
the bodywide kit in the rear not matchs with the car body
and the rim looks realy ugly
but genrally the car just for movies show
for car show you well fail
lonely
Aug 4, 2008 at 3:31 am
man that is sick is looks great accept for the spoiler and rims
Galactic_eyes
Aug 4, 2008 at 12:02 am
What the hell? Why don’t they just leave it alone. That’s why I lost interest in the original Knight Rider. That Mustang looks bad ass without all that crap on it. Looks like they shopped at PEP BOYS.
Məxfi
Aug 3, 2008 at 11:21 pm
looks crazy.. i though my spoiler was big.. that thing is gonna take off
Məxfi
Aug 3, 2008 at 10:34 pm
maybe without the over the top spoiler and maybe puttin some 24″ on the rear it would look decent
JOEZAIER T BELL
Aug 3, 2008 at 8:18 pm
THIS IS “DOZENS OF LEVELS “ABOVE” THE ORIGINAL KNIGHT RIDER!!!
Məxfi
Aug 3, 2008 at 5:45 pm
its overblown but its only a mode of the car so it wont always look like this….but it still does look like a kid just selected random parts to put on the car
Mattmassacre
Aug 3, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I think a close to stock GT500KR totally blacked out(black wheels, ford racing chin spoiler and yeah maybe just a flat sheetmetal drag race spoiler, and tone down that side exhaust), i understand that the car was made for david hasselhoff fans to stare and say ‘ooh look how shiney it is’ but actual car guys like us would watch it too but it looks like they too the street racers from the movie Cars and made them for the show
austin
Aug 3, 2008 at 4:11 pm
this car looks extremely cheesey to me the wheels are hidious that spoiler looks like it should b on a beat up honda civic…the best thing about it is the lambos and the front bumper but everything else sucks..o and whats the point of havin a bad ass mustang if its automatic..wheres the fun in that
Baron Von Natschke
Aug 3, 2008 at 4:09 pm
You people need lives. IT IS A CAR MADE FOR A FICTIONAL T.V. SHOW! You want overdone, look at the craptastic Bat-Mobile from the Dark Night. That is the cool thing about Fiction, it is MAKE BELIEVE!!!
murph40
Aug 3, 2008 at 3:18 pm
knight rider gone knight ricer…List of things that look like shit on this car: giant spoiler, rear bumper ass lift, snow globe?, wheels, lambo doors, and to top it off its an automatic…weak. Should have just taken a stock GT500, added a nav unit and goofy knight rider light on the front, that would have been more legit.
juice
Aug 3, 2008 at 1:55 pm
u guys are just haitin this mustang is sick and i dont even like mustangs but its a nice whip besides the snowglob in the center counsel
Məxfi
Aug 3, 2008 at 10:54 am
criminal
Məxfi
Aug 3, 2008 at 3:43 am
George Barris is getting too old. This thing is horrible, Why not the Camaro, or Vette.
Scott S.
Aug 3, 2008 at 3:40 am
Looks like a car that Satan’s 17 year old son would drive. Not a fan…and it’s a fuckin AUTO…I mean I understand it’s supposed to be a computerized car so you shouldn’t be shifting it yourself…but goddamn…hide the auto shifter then at least.
T3ku
Aug 3, 2008 at 2:50 am
Please bring back the Trans-Am.. This car is hideous, even normal mode it looks like an over riced car from a need for speed game…
Could have at least gone Corvette, that would have been a decent change from the Trans-Am, but mustang? ugh…
Məxfi
Aug 3, 2008 at 2:12 am
It looks like the New and improved MAD MAX car…
eric
Aug 3, 2008 at 1:45 am
is that a snow globe in the center console
Məxfi
Aug 3, 2008 at 1:16 am
maybe for a knight rider show on telemundo.
thts a POS
Aug 3, 2008 at 12:49 am
that thing looks so gay
way to ruin a show tht couldve been cool
Məxfi
Aug 3, 2008 at 12:49 am
unless it has an airride suspension, its nolt driveable. It erks me that the door scoops don’t match up to the widebody kit on the rear fenders. Then there’s the “early stepside truck” steps to cover the pritruding exhaust. ( Shakes head) Apparently, it transforms into a truck too, so this make sense I guess.
colby
Aug 2, 2008 at 11:07 pm
the rims are ugly but they are set up like nhra dragsters, the spoilers are to hold it to the road like nascar, lambo doors and body kit is to make it futuristic, (p.s. for all you muscle car guys talk all you want but i bet you cant take a STOCK SUSPENSION 60’s modles car and run it over 165mph without it being all over the road)
John A
Aug 2, 2008 at 10:20 pm
OK #1 the wheel choice and size are completely laughable, pick as size go low profile or go drag slicks and the solid wheels look completely stupid on the front they might work in back. #2 The front chin spoiler is awful it looks like a snow plow. #3 That rear wing is entirely too big it looks like something out of ‘Need For Speed’ and with it that large and that tall it can’t be that effective. #4 The interior looks completely stock aside from the Momo steering wheel and the shiny ball thing in the dash, but seriously come on what happened to the computers and the airplane look alike dash and steering wheel. Other than that it looks pretty sweet and I think the Lambo doors work since it’s supposed to be a futuristic car.
Hellmuth
Aug 2, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I just don’t like it, something about it just makes me want to vomit…
Don
Aug 2, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Transformers on acid.
Austin
Aug 2, 2008 at 7:59 pm
There is a few things that bug me about the car more than anything. 1: the freakin doors. Apparently scissor doors make the car faster? no. 2: the wheel and tire combo. It is just ugly, they aren’t even close to the same size. and 3 is that HUGE spoiler. Come on folks, KITT is not a ricer…or is it? I am a Mustang lover, but I honestly think that KITT should have come back as a Camaro or Firebird. Kinda like the Charger should have come back with 2 doors…not 4.
Məxfi
Aug 2, 2008 at 7:40 pm
No, this car IS gayer then Richard Simmons at a BackStreet Boys concert.
Tyler
Aug 2, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I think they could have made alot more viewers if they waited and used the camaro. come on, it comes out in January. Those wheels should be some basic 5 spokes, but keep the back tires. lambo doors belong on a………wait for it………LAMBO!!!!!
Məxfi
Aug 2, 2008 at 6:32 pm
This looks like crap, unless their racing in the salt flats what the hell. The old KITT would laugh at that. They should have kept the attack mode from the movie.
Don
Aug 2, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Oh its not gay…It is overdone. The wheel tire ratio front to back is all wrong. Today’s super cars all ride on low profiles.
I miss the video screens, and a dash that made sense for KITT. This thing looks slightly warmed over. Whats with the snow globe sticking out of the dash? A momo steering wheel? Whats with that? Any body could trick out a car to look this wierd. There is nothing unique about it.
KITT (the original) was unique from the word go because we wern’t used to the new firebird body style yet.
Not hatin on you stang owners, but we’ve seen the stang. It anit new anymore. The Challenger, and Camaro are still very fresh and unique to the scene today.
so its clear George Barris isn’t creating cars for TV anymore, and Ford paid the most money to have its product race across tv weekly.
Lets just hope the series has better, more realistic action than the tv movie.(If the bad guys are going to crash in a new ford, then by god CRASH!)
I hope rolling out this car early will give the production crew an idea of how to revise this thing to better suit the public (thier paycheck!)…
Məxfi
Aug 2, 2008 at 4:16 pm
KITT has become as gay as David Hasselhoff.
Bobby
Aug 2, 2008 at 3:57 pm
they should’ve just kept like the TV movie, at least that one looked cool all blacked out and stuff. This one just looks tacky and stupid, and might make me reconsider watching the show.
345435435435
Aug 2, 2008 at 2:01 pm
this was surely imported from the suburbs of Latvia.
austin
Aug 2, 2008 at 1:50 pm
haha thats a mustang for ya!!! GAY!!!!
steve
Aug 2, 2008 at 1:22 pm
this car has a lot of sweet different design elements to it like the tailights and everything, but all together on one car its too much an all over the place, the front looks like its trying ot be a custom frme dragger, the back looks like and old 60’s gasser drag car with those rims, awesome parts of the car, but all together i dont like it
acy 704
Aug 2, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Ugly nuff said
Tomas
Aug 2, 2008 at 12:13 pm
God Damn Walter was right NBC stands for Nothing But Crap. This is an autotrocity to Knight Rider. I remember I had the Knight Rider Peddle car and pjs so I was a big lil fan of the show and adored the Trans Am. But Oh my God this is terrible. The Trans Am in attack mode look good but this is disgusting. Enough said.
I've had it!
Aug 2, 2008 at 8:36 am
Finally! Something that all of cardomain can agree on! This is simply disrespectful to the OG KITT. I was so excited to finally see pictures of the new KITT as a Mustang, since everyone else was talking about it. Now I have to say, I’m thoroughly disappointed. For one, they could have made a “make-believe” Trans Am or something, but a Mustang?!!! Two, this looks like some body ate a bad meal and threw up… this is what came out. Knight Rider producers, marketing execs, and researchers, please do us a favor and at least take the Boeing 747 wing off and those podiatric shoes-for-rims off. Regardless, I will still be a Knight Rider fan but a little help here would be great.
aR.Ty
Aug 2, 2008 at 8:30 am
Holy shit!! That is one Fugly arse car.No class.
satty12
Aug 2, 2008 at 7:35 am
I remember watching the old nightrider shows as a little kid and this car is just plain ugly the old car was a pontiac to begin with and this is a mustang no offense to mustang fans i love em too but hey if u were reincarnated into something so far fetched id be pissed, like coming back as Paris Hiltons poodle thats what happend to Kitt its ugly, definetly gender confused, and after all the old Kitt was a clean mean looking beast that scared the crap out of bad guys now you dont have to chase they will just drop to the ground laughing at you… Atleast the job will be easier.
Dboy23
Aug 2, 2008 at 6:09 am
This is not the real KITT, it’s not the one from the show, it’s not even a real GT500KR it’s some stupid ugly show car, and a waste of money.
gtr
Aug 2, 2008 at 6:04 am
its even gayer than a regular mustang.
Məxfi
Aug 2, 2008 at 5:41 am
KITT was once a well spoken TA. This version of KITT is so goofy looking I would expect it to have a lisp or studder.
jr
Aug 2, 2008 at 4:59 am
its fine, just put some damn proper rims on it
Deepawater805
Aug 2, 2008 at 4:59 am
The Stang is a great platform to build on, but this thing looks like they let a bunch of 12 year olds on Redbull throw all their hotrod fantasy’s on one car. Maybe that’s the demographic market they’re looking for…
ken hartel( loving my cardomain swag)
Aug 2, 2008 at 4:59 am
BUT remeber it was also DRIVEN to the trailer after the show…lol…
Kelly
Aug 2, 2008 at 4:48 am
this is HORRIBLE. Just Awful…. This is a Mustang cobra that some tard tried to fix and in the end made it look like a Joke i am just sickened all the way around an ashamed Mustang Fan
Məxfi
Aug 2, 2008 at 4:36 am
thats painful to look at. i think i died a little on the inside just thinking the car it used to be.
Adam
Aug 2, 2008 at 12:38 am
I don’t get how lambo door relate to attacking??? The rear end no longer resembles any form of Mustang what so ever. To top it all off, I really don’t like the snow globe on the dash.
Lucky for me I recently ended my digital cable subscription so now I wont have to decide whether to watch or not. No TV equals a more productive me!
Stewart
Aug 1, 2008 at 11:37 pm
I’m not feelin’ it.
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Kinda cheesy looking.
Məxfi
Aug 1, 2008 at 8:20 pm
this car, like the chick’s shoes in the third pic down, is an abomination. KITT as a mustang is mistake number one. Then add all the hokey scoops, whale-tail of a wing, polished dish wheels, and all the other one-off bolt on crap and you just end up with pure silliness. Someone being persued by this incarnation of KITT would be caught simply because of the wreck they’d inevitably have from laughing uncontrollably at the sight of this clown car in their rear-view mirror.
Məxfi
Aug 1, 2008 at 7:18 pm
I was cool with KITT coming back as a Mustang in the TV Movie, but this transformer crap has KITT jumping the shark before the series even starts.
Məxfi
Aug 1, 2008 at 7:17 pm
if they changed the rims and maybe take the “hood scoops” off i think its an alright car. I personally like the “attack-mode” from the 2-hr movie better than this car, but i guess if i watch a couple of episode i think this car will grow on me.
CKNARF
Aug 1, 2008 at 6:38 pm
deathrace one is better.
kap0w
Aug 1, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Don’t forget the Pike’s Peak spoiler on it. For the non-automotive fans who just like the ridiculous show, I’m sure it would never cross their mind, but for people who care, it’s kinda off the wall.