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Quasi-Traction
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For this Knight Rider movie that I heard about, which is supposed to be on T.V this weekend or next?
I guess they're using a Cobra Mustang as the new KITT?
anyone know anything about this?
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aaron_sK
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:58 am Post subject: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_(2008_film)
It's a new Shelby. The show's trailers make quite a few claims based off of the "550hp" number. Funny that they never seem to mention the 3800lb curb weight, or the fact that the 550 number was pulled out of the air by Ford with no dyno proof to back it up. 
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Twilightoptics
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:15 am Post subject: |
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Yep. Been advertising it for quite some time now.
Looks about as good as the new Terminator show 
Pontiac>Dodge>Ford>Fiat? |
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Demon
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| Twilightoptics wrote: | Yep. Been advertising it for quite some time now.
Looks about as good as the new Terminator show
Pontiac>Fiat>Dodge>Ford |
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Twilightoptics
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:28 am Post subject: |
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| Demon wrote: | | Twilightoptics wrote: | Yep. Been advertising it for quite some time now.
Looks about as good as the new Terminator show
Pontiac>Fiat>Dodge>Ford |
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Huh?
First Knight Rider was with a Pontiac.
Second it was with a Dodge.
Now it's a Ford.
What next, a fiat? |
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Xophertony
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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i thiunk he took > as a greater then. and he thinks fiat is better then dodge and ford.
when the hell have they ever used dodge as a Knight rider car? |
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QwkTrip
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| It's pretty hard to get a vehicle sponsor for a car that's not in existance any more. They have to choose from current production vehicles. |
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mrpopo573
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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A ford is being used for the show so that AAA can get there ad time in with the network 
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iansane
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Xophertony wrote: | i thiunk he took > as a greater then. and he thinks fiat is better then dodge and ford.
when the hell have they ever used dodge as a Knight rider car? |
The first movie. That thing that looks like a pontiac banshee concept car was built off of a mitsushitty chassis I believe. I can't remember the actual car they used. Eclipse or conquest or something? EDIT: just wiki'd it.
"The studio was unable to use a real Pontiac Banshee for the movie, so instead it hired Jay Ohrberg Star Cars Inc. to customize a 1991 Dodge Stealth for the Knight 4000. The custom car can also be seen, albeit briefly, as a stolen supercar in CHiPs '99. "
| QwkTrip wrote: | | It's pretty hard to get a vehicle sponsor for a car that's not in existance any more. They have to choose from current production vehicles. |
Would've been better taste if they used a solstice or something.
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83Z28BlackBetty
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| iansane wrote: |
Would've been better taste if they used a solstice or something. |
The solstice looks WAY to happy and fun to be a KITT, i always thought of it as a bada$$ car that looked mean, and a solstice doesn't strike me as that. |
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aaron_sK
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| QwkTrip wrote: | | It's pretty hard to get a vehicle sponsor for a car that's not in existance any more. They have to choose from current production vehicles. |
Bumblebee wasn't exactly in production. They could have tried harder to keep it with the General, or at least tried to pick an actual supercar. |
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iansane
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| @ aaron insinuating a TA is a supercar. |
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aaron_sK
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I dunno man, it could talk and fly, that's pretty super. |
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Demon
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Xophertony wrote: | i thiunk he took > as a greater then. and he thinks fiat is better then dodge and ford.
when the hell have they ever used dodge as a Knight rider car? |
I'd take a fiat over a dodge or a ford...
hell I'd likely take a girls bicycle over a dodge or a ford.
new mustang didn't impress me personally when i drove the GT, the charger has been a disappointment from day one...
the solstice may not have been a great choice, but a hardtop saturn sky would have been understandable ...
shizzle doesn't get too much worse than going ford ... |
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Dewey316
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| iansane wrote: | | @ aaron insinuating a TA is a supercar. |
Well, you do work on Ferrari's |
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QwkTrip
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| aaron_sK wrote: | | Bumblebee wasn't exactly in production. |
It's going to be... there's a method to the madness. You think the movie people just thought, "Hey! Let's make it a new Camaro!" There's a lot of money traded over those decisions. |
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QwkTrip
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| mrpopo573 wrote: | | A ford is being used for the show so that AAA can get there ad time in with the network |
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