Bird spotted over Ray and Wes's office:

[defamer.com]

You guys might want to cover up Pierre Hoffman's personal phone number...

What's up with the slats in the console?

@Nayrlladnar:

That is called poor interior customization, my friend.
"poor interior customization" Remember it. This is what hot glue and little aluminum coupons look like.

Very disappointing. The rest looks great, but the interior is trashed. Why do the seats look like they've been worn into the ground?

Feh

@Nayrlladnar:

Yeah, those slats are terribly mis-aligned. I sure hope this car isn't one being used for interior shots... that's just embarrassing.

Oh yeah, and cheesy as all get-out. Kinda like the Momo wheel missing the part of the wheel that's supposed to be held (whether you drive with a hand on top, or one each at 10 and 2, it's all missing). Dumb.

@impreza: Because in post-production that crap will be edited or treated in order to hide it. Nothing is free. 90% of the time, in real life, props for TV and the movies look like sh!t.

That's the magic of hollywood.

That steering wheel would be great if the car was like, half a turn lock to lock, as it is it must be a total pain in the arse.

Looks like Grade 6b did the interior as a school project.

With bits 'n bobs they found lying around.....

I'm really curious why they took the trouble to install the blower.

I'm assuming there are no shots under the hood (it's way too ugly under there to be a super-future car), and it's not like 400hp's going to do anything that 300hp wouldn't for the purposes of being a prop.

@DustyButt: Will the magic of Hollywood make this a Trans Am Again??

@SwatLax: I am going to call him and confirm that he ok'd it to be posted on Jalopnik.

@pmindemann: you know they changed it from 10-and-2 to 9-and-3?

"they" are a sneaky bunch.

oh and - nice supercharger.

@pmindemann: You've never seen Knight Rider before, have you?

I'm resigned to KITT being a Mustang but I really wish they had blacked out the wheels, badges and lights to give it a more sinister look like the original.

Those metal inserts on the side of the center stack look VERY cheap and the job is quite poor. Thank God all shots inside the car will be dark during the show.

Also, did sparco have a sale on heavily worn out seats?

Let's call Pierre Hofman and ask him. *LOL*

OH MY GOD HOFF <------ Man oh ok then

@teargas: but serious... I didn't put the number in my comment because I didn't want Ray to get in trouble and eliminate all chances that he would get to finally drive an R8.

That said, I do have the number in my phone for when I'm looking to trick out a Mustang.

in fact, that wheel - and especially the location of those metal thumbpads, keeping you from wrapping your thumb around - would be perfect for training people how to hold the wheel properly and avoid breaking your face/nose/arms if the airbags deploy.

I think it's actually harder to drive at 10 and 2 than 9 and 3.

@Mad_Science: That's so they can parade the car about at car shows, malls in middle america, or any other promotional event. They tint the windows, prop the hood, rope the car off, and charge a couple of XXXX dollars per hour.

I'd like this show to tank, so Jon Lovitz can buy the Mustang and drive it in Benchwarmers II: Breaking Training.

I like right hand at about 5, left hand on girlfriends thigh.

@Mad_Science:

That was exactly what I thought. That supercharger money could've paid for the rest of the steering wheel they couldn't afford.

@jdepould: Me too

@Rust-MyEnemy: Great minds...

Ray: now that the picture's be altered and Pierre is safe from prank calls, I only ask that you fulfill one of my three wishes:
1. Get up to date with the introductions
2. Tell us about your reunion
3. Get a podcast going!

@Rust-MyEnemy: I like the way you think.

I'd say they just thought it would be cool to get the control column off a Learjet, hence the 'steering wheel' with no top. Either that, or that Momo model had F1 style lights on the top but the producers thought the instrument dials of KITT/Mustang was more high-tech looking than a 5000 dollar F1 steering wheel.

The blower is there so they can justify not having 'turbo boost' by having psuedo 'blower boost' for which you have to dial a code into the console. 1-800-FAST for example. Or 1-800-GITT for when the Stang craps out.

10 and 2 was great when steering wheels were 18'' in diameter.

@Rust-MyEnemy: It's very true, if you swap the directions.

The twelve year old in me gets pissed off when he thinks about KITT.

At one time, Universal Studios in LA had a KITT mock-up that you could sit in and talk with. Being just a wee dork, I asked him how many bytes where in a kilobyte. He says 1,000. I tell him he's wrong, it's 1,024. He says, no, it's 1,000. First time I ever got into an argument with a car.

The original KITT was executed so much better. This one is postively sloppy. At least the hood scanners look cool though.

Is KITT a mustang? No.

@Unevolved: He's in Britain.

I wonder what else they do backwards over there...

@Unevolved: Yeah, obviously I'm talking in the UK, not with your girlfriend running along outside the car....

@Mad_Science: Keep on thinkin'..

The stiff British resolve, and all that....

Old chap....

a future engine should look like this

Apologies for the bad quality, I'm too lazy to get a decent screen cap.

In case you're wondering, this is where its from:

Remember the 80's?

I met Ron Fellows (my hero) and wasn't dissappointed. He probably thinks I stalk him now though given how many times I run into him at each Long Beach Grand Prix.

i kinda hope the analog gauges don't make it into the tv show, but i doubt i'll even watch this now...

if none of the editors are in detroit, why are you pretending to be? the bit that was recently added to the masthead, i mean.

@Rust-MyEnemy:

I was thinking the same thing. Imagine you're in the middle of a turn & the steering wheel catches your pants! Kaboom

It may be an automatic, but what'd they do with the shifter?

Kitt's got a slushie??? Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick, they're actors! Can't they just ACT like they can drive a stick?!?

Please oh please oh please have the original KITT the Knight Industries Two Thousand and Michael come back to save the day for the Three Thousand. Talk about a perfect passing of the torch. The new driver and KITT are in big trouble all hope is lost when you hear the classic original Turbo Boost sound and KITT comes flying through the wall landing and taking out six of the bad henchmen. It will be brilliant.

@facingtraffic: it's a sentient automobile. it shifts whenever it wants to shift. it has no need for a shift lever. of course, that could make a manual override more interesting, to say the least... maybe there's some hidden paddle shifters.

You guys do realize that there are several versions of a film car built, right? This is probably the exterior filming model, as the one with all the nice interior detail work (if you look at the commercials, the interior is not a hot glue job from hell) which is called the "hero" car, is probably never let out of NBC's hands.

And to the poster that commented about the steering wheel missing the top... dude... that's like saying the General Lee was yellow.

So, it's not even a real GT500KR?

It's bad enough we're stuck with a Ford, which is an ersatz KITT in the first place. Then they stick us with an ersatz GT-KR thing? An Ersatz-ersatz; a GT pretending to be a GT500KR, pretending to be KITT.

I guess Mustangs have always pretended to be fast, so it's not new ground. What's next? They'll pretend to go 'round corners?

I'm still going to watch the premier, but I promise not to like it. I also promise to insult every last detail about a car I would saw off a finger to own. I also promise to drink a shot every time Hoff pops on screen, or does something Hoff-like, in his infinite Hoffness.

@IronEagle: As cool as that would be, you are forgetting that this isn't actually a show, it's an advertisement for Ford vehicles with some 80's TV show love wedged in. No Fbo