Knight Rider News: KITT can transform into a pickup!
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We were encouraged by the last bit of news on the upcoming return of Knight Rider as a series this fall from an interview with the show's producer Gary Scott Thompson. In it Thompson revealed that Turbo Boost would be back and KITT's Attack Mode de-winged. Unfortunately, the news is not so good out of San Diego today where the cast of the Knight Rider series held court at a Comic Con panel. According to io9, they were late because they were stuck in traffic (oh, the delicious irony) and what they had to show were boob-driven clips of impossibly attractive people acting badly. And Val Kilmer, the voice of KITT, has apparently develop a lisp. Sigh. A new side of KITT was gleaned from clips seen at the panel discussion where the autonomous talking car actually transforms into a pickup! We can tell you exactly why this has happened. Ford wants to promote pickups because nobody is buying them right now, so what better way to do so than have KITT grow a bed. We also learn that KITT will have a nemesis in another evil car of some sort, possibly another version of KITT himself or a 1987 Camaro IROC-Z (we kid). Any way you parse it, the news coming out of Comic Con for the return of Knight Rider is not encouraging, though we still plan on tying Alex to a couch and forcing him to liveblog every episode. Thanks for the tip, Brett!
Gallery: The new KITT - OFFICIAL PHOTOS
[Source: io9.com]
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Parkerman 2:33PM (7/25/2008)
*sigh*
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tbyron 3:39PM (7/25/2008)
sigh? its not as if the original had writing & acting that made it that era's equivalent of The Sopranos. whatevs
mk 2:40PM (7/25/2008)
Wow.
So much FAIL in one article. Amazing that it all fit.
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Alex Nunez 2:56PM (7/25/2008)
This is gonna be fun.
TJ 3:03PM (7/25/2008)
I agree with the fail...
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/07/10/fear-the-muskrat-351-powered-mustang-ranger-hybrid/
rehashing from the last year!
Randy 3:35PM (7/25/2008)
and the point of this article was..............................?
MJK 2:47PM (7/25/2008)
All that work, and not even a lowering kit, these people are confused.
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Loudthing 2:44PM (7/25/2008)
That first photo of the mustang pickup hurts my brain.
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geo.stewart 4:15PM (7/25/2008)
how do you reconcile the 4th with the 12th? both are supposed to be the warped one.
Yes ,I should be banished for looking at all 14. Its like when an Escalade battles a train. You cant help but look.
TStik 2:45PM (7/25/2008)
Is patheticer a word?
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Spike 2:47PM (7/25/2008)
Wouldn't drive it without a bag over my head.
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gotsmart 2:47PM (7/25/2008)
KITT's getting a nemesis? Sounds like a perfect role for the new Camaro.
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sw 2:52PM (7/25/2008)
KITT has many a nemesis, terrible writing, a re-hashed idea from a bygone era that most of the younger viewers aren't familiar with and lastly the fact that the original show was crap.
pmalloy4391 3:04PM (7/25/2008)
is it nemisis or nimisi?
gotsmart 3:14PM (7/25/2008)
Neither. Nemeses is the plural of nemesis.
Alex 2:55PM (7/25/2008)
i didn't think that show could get much worse. Apparently i was wrong. Very wrong.
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John 3:08PM (7/25/2008)
This show needs to die quickly so only memories of the original will remain.
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Donald 3:09PM (7/25/2008)
Something tells me the nemesis of KITT will be a fuel efficient family sedan backed by a team of average-looking, but classically trained and talented British actors.
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geo.stewart 7:09PM (7/25/2008)
Monthy Python in a Peugot?
old blighty 11:40AM (7/31/2008)
NBC shills
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