The Automobile Portal

Mike Levine from Pickuptrucks.com recently spoke with Knight Rider Executive Producer Gary Scott Thompson and got the skinny on KITT’s new ability to transform himself (seriously, I just called it a “him”) from a 2008 Shelby GT500KR to a 2009 Ford F-150 FX-4. The essence for having KITT morph into a truck came to Thompson when he needed his main character and that week’s damsel in distress to make a quick getaway without KITT having to stop during the term of them to get in, so he imagined the car as a pickup. This regular course the characters could hop rectilinear in its bed (we see this happen in the recently made known clip that was released by NBC), though we’re unsure how they survive the metal origami that turns KITT hinder part into a car. We also disagree with Thompson when he alludes to the GT500KR being “about the same mass” being of the class who the F-150, but he feels justified in taking this direction with KITT after consulting with “futurists” at Microsoft who predict that vehicles will change their shape to suit our needs through 2030. We don’t know what being a futurist entails, bound we’re not inclined to believe ones employed by Microsoft who failed to predict the backlash against Vista, how bad the Zune would sell or that the entire first batch of XBox 360s would delinquency. Clairvoyants they are not.

Though the rendering at right reveals KITT F-150 was originally designed to bear a bigger resemblance to the GT500KR steady that the car is based, it’s ended up being just a blacked-out F-150 FX-4 by KITT’s signature red light bar above and behind the top sandbar of the grille. That should make it easy for fanboys to recreate with their own 2009 F-150s though, because we just know sales of the truck are going to skyrocket hind the renovated season of Knight Rider begins.

[Source: Pickuptrucks.com]