Carscoop Asks: What’s Your Favourite TV or Movie Car?

Whether you're a fan of Adam West or Roger Moore, you have to admit: cars and television go together well.

The Saint had the Volvo P1800. The Dukes wreaked havoc with the General Lee. The Caped Crusader and his sidekick did the "vra-vra-vroom" in the Batmobile. The Hoff had the Knight Industries Two Thousand (a personal favorite, if only for Will Daniels' quips).

Heck, some of these cars are more loved and remembered than the stars that drove them. Except maybe for David Hasslehoff. I hear he's big in Germany.

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2010 Chevy Camaro KITTed with Knight Rider LEDs

Ever since the new Camaro hit the streets, we knew that someone was bound to make a link between GM's pony car and KITT. That someone happens to be member 'Spaceballone' of the Camaro5 forums and what he did is to modify and install an LED light scanner in that little mail-slot air intake on the hood above the Chevy bowtie badge.

The UK-based company that sells the KITT LED scanner for about $160 claims that the system comes with three settings that that mimic the light patterns on the original 1980's Knight Rider 2000 car and on the Shelby GT500KR in the shortly lived Knight Rider 2008 TV series.

We're not so sure if it's legal in most places to use the LEDs while driving, so if you're thinking about installing the system, better ask before you get into any trouble.

Source: Camaro5, Via: Insideline, Link: Knightlight LEDs

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R.I.P.: Knight Rider TV Series Officially Terminated

Not that anybody will miss it, but NBC officially announced that its new Knight Rider TV series featuring Justin Bruening in the role of Michael Knight and a specially modified Ford Shelby GT500KR as KITT, is out of gas after only one season and some 17 episodes. To be completely frank, the series was so bad that we only managed to watch / tolerate a couple of episodes of the new Knight Rider before calling it quits.

Via: LA Times

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Watch the First Episode of New Knight Rider TV Series on Carscoop

It will be another week before the new Knight Rider TV series starring Justin Bruening as Michael Knight and a souped-up Mustang Shelby GT500 KR as KITT hits the air on broadcast television on September 24, but NBC has done us a favor by releasing the first episode that’s called ‘A Knight in Shining Armor’ online. And even better, you can watch it here on Carscoop. Just hit the jump and don’t forget to leave us a comment with your thoughts on the first episode and especially its protagonist, the Shelby Mustang KITT. -Continued

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Video: KITT Attack Mode Revealed at Comic Con

Having shown you the first photos of the KITT Attack Mode that will star on NBC’s new Knight Rider TV show that premieres on September 24, we discovered two videos from “Knightrideronline” that include the official reveal of the… comical KITT at the San Diego Comic Con along with an interview with the Knight Rider’s Executive Producer and Showrunner, Gary Scott Thompson. Check out both videos after the jump. -Continued

The Reveal

New KITT Attack Mode Explained

Via: Knightrideronline

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Ghastly: NBC Reveals new KITT Attack Mode

For those of you who thought that the new Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR based KITT couldn’t look any more kitsch than it already is, then you ought to check out the new Attack Mode for KITT that was revealed at the Comic Con convention in San Diego. These pictures, courtesy of ShadowFlight, show that there’s no limit to bad taste. If we didn’t know better, we’d say that the new Attack Mode for KITT is the work of a five-year-old kid who spends all day watching re-runs of MTV’s Pimp my Ride… -One more picture after the jump

Source: Shadowflight , Via: Autoblog.com

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Jason’s Corvette Z06 Based KITT Proposal

Our second proposal on the car that could take the place of the original Pontiac Trans-Am in NBC’s new Knight Rider TV Series comes from our reader Jason McCutcheon. While Vincent chose the Saab Aero-X Concept as his muse in our previous post (see here), Jason picked out GM’s best offering, the Corvette Z06. And you’ll probably agree with us that the blacked out Corvette Z06 looks “murderously” bad. If any you have time to “chop” up a potential “KITT” –the weirder the car, the better, we’ll be more than glad to host your work. You can also check our chops by clicking here. -More images of the Vette after the jump

Thanks for the chop Jason!

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Vincent’s Saab Aero-X Knight Rider

On Sunday we asked you, what car would be the ideal choice for KITT’s role in the new “Knight Rider” TV Series that’s expected to air next fall (click here). Today to our surprise, we received a few propositions from our readers who took the time to fiddle around with photoshop visualizing their ideas. First up is Vincent Nacon’s Saab Aero-X K.I.T.T. Interestingly enough, Vincent replaced the original single red line bars on the front with KITT’s voice-box –why didn’t we think of that?

Thanks for the chop Vincent!

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Poll: Which Car Should Play In The New Knight Rider TV Series?

Since we learned last night that NBC has decided to revive Knight Rider (click here) with a new TV series next fall, we've been raking our brain to try and find the best candidate to surrogate Knight’s 1980’s Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am. Heck, we even stayed up last night playing around with photoshop just to see what KITT would look like if he were a Chevy Camaro –mmm, maybe, a Cadillac Cien –we liked this one, an Audi R8 –that sucked, even an Impreza WRX STi –that’ll piss off many Texans.

Which one of today’s production cars/concepts do you think would be the ideal choice for KITT’s role? And oh, if you know your way around with Photoshop, don’t hesitate to e-mail us a pic! Have your say in the comments below. -Chops after the jump

Pics: Carscoop

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Knight Rider Coming Back To TV In 2008

If you’re in your late 20’s – early 30’s like yours truly, you’ve probably spent countless hours as a kid in front of the TV watching Michael Knight (played by David Hasselhoff) and his blacked out K.I.T.T. 2000. Yes, we shamelessly admit that there was a time and a place were we dreamed of driving Knight’s talking Trans-Am –with a handful of chicks in it! But we better stop here before we make a complete “arse” of ourselves… Anyway, what we really wanted to tell you is that NBC is bringing back the 1980s action-drama series. According to Variety, the new "Knight Rider" could air as early as next fall. There’s no word on which car will substitute the Pontiac Trans-Am, but producers are exploring the idea of adding "evil" cars to offset K.I.T.T.

Via: Autoblog.com , Source: Variety

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