Ford Buys Role in NBC’s New ‘Knight Rider’

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Fans of skin-tight jeans, snug-fitting red turtlenecks, demi-mullets, and heavily synthesized music originally rejoiced when NBC announced it was bringing back the once-hit TV show “Knight Rider.

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[...] to Winding Road, Ford Motor Company paid handsomely for NBC to risk fan backlash to change KITT from a Pontiac [...]

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Old news!

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Anyone else find it ironic that the world's most famous "car that drives itself" is fitted with a manual transmission?

Winding Road » Archive » Ford of Canada Pulls Offensive Ad

[...] Ford spokesman Gina Gehlert told CBC the ad wouldn’t appear again. She said, “It was never our intention to offend anyone. Safety is a top priority for us as Ford of Canada, and these ads have been pulled today.

Aaron Sobel

Adam Wadecki is perhaps the smartest person alive.

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inveigled? webster's is hiring...they probably pay better than brophy

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Adam, I'm over here planning the battle of Normandy, and you're over there trying to arrange the oars on the shore.

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Winding Road » Archive » Batman is KITT: Kilmer Replaces Arn

[...] dying to play the hero, as he has replaced Will Arnett (Arrested Development) as the voice of KITT (Ford Mustang GT500KR) for the upcoming Knight Rider [...]

Michael

Hello, I am 27, I grew up with this series. I watched faithfully as a child.

I cannot, and sadly will not, support this abhorent, abomination of a series. You simply used the wrong car, you should have used the original car (even modified), they still look futuristic even today. You could have at least used the new Camero, but no, you destroyed the K.I.T.T. name, and brought shame to the series.

This will be a grand failure, you will wonder why. This is simple, your stuffed suits, stuck their nose in where it didn't belong. I am dissappointed that you would place the Ford dollar before the show.

You should realize by now with all the negative mail, that the faithfull will turn away from this series, you failed to maintain the balance. It was so simple too, all you had to do was not mess with the "star" of this show, which always was the car, no-one really cared for the actors. This would be analagise to "The Dukes of Hazzard" using a Toyota as the General Lee.

Your project team made a fatal error in their start-up meeting, I imagine this simple point is so far over your heads that even if you do read these messages, you still don't understand your disasterous mistake. You, "Jumped the Shark in a Cobra Mustang", before the series started. A new record!

I hate to be this sturn, but you have destroyed, a childhood dream.

Thanks for the memories,

All of us dissappointed and disenfranchised in the U.S.

Winding Road » Archive » Question of the Day: What Did You T

[...] color changes. Yet, the 540-horsepower GT500KR couldn’t even outrun a Ford Edge. In fact, Ford’s are the only vehicle in the world where Knight Rider is set – which, I suppose, is to be [...]

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