ponch Easy.
It just so happens that just before KITT and Michael leave the truck to go fight Airwolf, Bonnie installs Surface-to-Air Missiles and laser guidance systems into KITT. The Knight Foundation wins again.
lol, you silly twits nothing can withstand AirWolf! The most obvious solution to a conflict would simply be AirWolf nuking your pathetic little auto-mobile. As for your pretty little SAMs, how are they going to hit a IR and Radar stealthed helicopter with Radar and IR jamming plus chaff and flares that’s hovering at 65,000 feet ready to drop a tactical nuke or hit you with an anti-tank missle? Hmm?
Talk to the hand,
Kerinsky
KITT, who happens to have the mechanical schematics to AirWolf, ascertains how to dismantle these petty stealth systems with an electromagnetic pulse. AirWolf is now a helpless duck.
Roll credits.
KITT has the schematics to Airwolf’s desert lair, Michael, and some token half hearted love interest, sneak it, a fist fight breaks out, Sinjun holds the love interest in some precarious situation, KITT somehow disables the gun, allowing for her rescue, another fist fight, comic relief from KITT occurs as he corral Ernest Borgnine into the corner, Michael, who’s about as dumb as my ****, severs a crucial wire, rendering Airwolf inoperable…
they all go back to the foundation and have a good laugh, because KITT makes some naive/humorous comment through Michaels neato radio watch.
How 'out introducing me to the Mercedes with the big headlights.
Yeah well how about the Knight Foundation vs the Phoenix foundation(McGuyver) 
stopping distance is not an issue since only the tires are rotating at a 61mph speed relitive to the truck, the car and its momentum (what actually causes the long stopping distances) is only 1 mph.
What I wonder about in this thread is can the car’s rear wheels provide enough power to keep up 60mph AND cause the front wheels to lift the car up that steep ramp.
OK, now that we’re on (or OFF, really) the subject: what the hell was up with Airwolf and Blue Thunder? Which was a rip-off of what? They were both superhelicopters, and the series appeared almost simultaneously. At least, in the Netherlands they did.
Blue Thunder was a movie first. Then they made a TV series out of it. At about the same time, Airwolf came out, also capitalizing on the movie.
Airwolf was on the air a lot longer, though. I guess that’s cause it was faster and looked more streamlined. Blue Thunder was more realistic, in my opinion. Many of the gadgets they were using actually existed, while the Hawk brothers were flying on a bit more science fiction.
Of course, the ground teams were a lot different, too. Airwolf had Ernie Borgnine and a babe or two, while Blue Thunder had burned out football players. If I recall correctly, Bubba Smith and Dick Butkis.
But they didn’t capitalise on the same movie, if I understand you correctly? Thanks for the answer though!
Who would win if KITT was up against Airwolf AND Blue Thunder? Would he need to enlist any help from the Baywatch babes??
Dick Butt Kiss - is this name a joke??
Pop quiz no 23: Who was the first man to stage a concert in East Berlin after the wall came down??
Clue 1: Big hair
Clue 2: Thermally regulated jacket
Clue 3: His singing talents are equal to his acting talents.
Answers please
Jon Bon Jovi?
Maybe you need another clue
Less talented and less charismatic than JBJ (and even worse taste in music)
And had a small role in Knight Rider on a regular basis
… No, not the old Eglish guy or the cute lady mechanic
Of Course! Everyone knows this one. The world-famous Leonard Bernstein, who recorded the voice of K.I.T.T. for season 3 of Knight Rider, played Beethoven’s 9th at the wall Dec. 25th, 1989. Of course, he sure did love those jokes. He even modified Schiller’s words at the advice of his old friend Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. What’s even more amazing, while hanging round the set of Kinght Rider he’d put on that wig and jacket and fill in for David Hasselhoff himself! In fact, just a week after doing Beethoven, he did another concert in the entire role of David Hasselhoff celebrating the New Year! Tony Clifton, eat your heart out.
That hair of his, yeah, that was something.
panama jack
All this discussion about KITT in the truck and no one mentions the most amazing physics trick of them all? It left me baffled week after week.
How is it that the truck is larger on the inside than on the outside??? When we watch Michael Knight drive the car up the ramp, his car fits neatly through the rear doors of the trailer. Assuming that the truck is designed to fit into a typical ten-foot highway lane, the next scene is amazing. After driving into the truck, the next scene always has Michael opening his driver’s door fully and getting out of the car. It seems to me, he would have to get out of the car through the window, *Dukes of Hazzard *style.
Let’s not forget the truck’s amazing Inertial Dampers, too. Presumably, the truck’s never-seen driver is having to meneuver the truck through traffic, stop and red-lights, turn corners, etc. Never do we see Devin, Michael, or the shapely mechanic (what was her name?) sway with the movement of the truck.
Hey, maybe the Inertail Dampening Field helped with bringing the car into the truck…
Looks like I have to save the show again.
Well your inertial damperers theory is correct. It is not so much Star Trek as you think though. The back end of the truck is mounted with a very sophisticated indipentant suspension system. It is computer controlled and stabilized. The trailer is never rocked or jerked more than a 1/4 in any direction.
Now, the size and apearance of the trailer is a little more complicated. When the Knight Industries started, they were using mirrors to make half the truck disappear- much like a magician does. They soon realized this would be impractical on the street (someone could shoot up the mirrors). Now they use a powerful electromagnetic wave generater mouted under the truck. Every here about the Philidelphia Experiment (I think that was it). Back in the cold war, the Navy made an entire ship disappear with this technology. After the Navy lost funding, Knight Industries took over and perfected it. This cloaking device keeps a large portion of the truck invisible. That way, people do not see how huge the truck is and realize it is a special truck. They need to stay relativly secretive ya know.
Any other questions??
Of course you never see the driver of the truck. There isn’t one. You don’t think that Knight Industries went to all the trouble of fitting KITT with with the auto drive thingy and then neglect the support vehicle?
Is there any Knight Rider slash fiction out there? If I was KITT, I might just have the hots for that cute truck.
Ooops missed a question…
The names of the shapely mechanics are Bonnie and April. April was there for season 2 and Bonnie was there for all the others… or is it the other way around?
You got it Bear, Bonnie was absent for one season.
That is easy. The truck was built by the same company that produces the TARDIS.
As a kid, my biggest Knight Rider question was:
Why wouldn’t they build the president’s car out of the same material they built KITT?
At some point in 1982-3, someone got me the blueprints of KITT. I don’t know who produced them, and I didn’t really understand them, but as a 10 year old, they looked very cool.
My biggest disappointment was in the summer of 1983, when we drove cross-country, got all the way to Universal Studios, saw KITT, but he didn’t talk.