by William Belson
Some of you readers may know of the Knight Rider in the ‘80s; some of you may have even been fans. The series has been remade into a new television series. The old Knight Rider had an awesome car, the Pontiac Trans Am, which at that time had the greatest technology ever seen and had. Hold on to your seats, ladies, when I say these two words: David Hasselhoff. To some people, “the Hoff” made the show; in my opinion it was the car. But what series is better? The old one or the new one?What got me going on Knight Rider was the movie that came out last February to see what kind of support the new series would have in September, and watching the old television show just recently. Both shows have great arguments such as the Mustang in the new series has much more power than the Trans Am and has many more technological features. Several people say that when they were starting to remake the series they should have used a General Motors product, since Pontiac does not have any new coupe muscle cars. Chevrolet just does not have any new muscle cars with class at this time, and in my opinion; the Ford mustang GT 500 was the way to go.
The new Knight Rider includes K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Three Thousand) with nanotech cloaking, which allows K.I.T.T. to change from the Mustang to any other Ford production vehicle you can think of. But the two things that they should have kept in the specs of the new K.I.T.T. were the flamethrower and the oil jets. I mean, come on--you always need a decent flame thrower.
They kind of made up for it with the new K.I.T.T. by keeping the classic grappling hook system and some new technology like the laser guided missile system, laser weapons system, a 1000-watt quadraphonic stereo system, DNA analysis equipment, Military-Grade GPS, and you can’t forget the best thing: heated seats. The thing that really makes the new Knight Rider really pull away from the old was the incorporation of lots more characters and the use of the masks, retina copied contact lenses, and voice scrambler (changer). The final feature that the Knight Rider series put into K.I.T.T. that makes the series and car even cooler is its self-regenerating ability. The new Knight Rider is obviously better than the old.
