Wikipedia defines Turbo Boost as:

Used in most episodes, a series of rear mounted undercarriage rocket motors allows KITT to accelerate to incredible speeds in excess of 200 mph (322 km/h). When activated in combination with the Trajectory Guidance System and a pair of rocket motors mounted just behind the front tires that lifted the front of the car, KITT could jump 40 feet (12,2 m) into the air and pass over obstacles in the road. The system also allowed KITT added power whenever he had to maneuver heavy objects such as pushing a heavy boulder off a cliff, or pulling a large vehicle out of danger. The boosters could fire forward or backward.

Robot Chicken arrived at Knight Rider's golden rule of Turbo Boost. As KITT tells Michael, "But Michael, Turbo-boost should only be used once per episode."
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Luckily, the Wide World Of Sports was on hand to cover the motocross race for which Evel’s jump was a sideshow. They heard about the jump, thought it might make a neat segment and launched the career of America’s most famous stuntman.

The stunt was made all the more difficult due to the choppy waves and windy conditions. Pastrana needed to hit the four-foot wide ramp with precisely the right amount of speed, flotation and angle; otherwise it'd have been like hitting a wall.

Speaking immediately afterwards, Pastrana said, "This is one of the most dangerous jumps I have ever made. If I had failed to get into the lake at the proper speed I could have ended up hitting the ramp really hard."

The stunt will form part of the Nitro Circus 6 DVD.
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A bit over six months ago, we ran a shot of Ken Block's 171-foot insane-o Subie-leap for the Stunt Junkies television programme. After watching this clip, we would not want to be the man's spine. Even if you've already caught the episode, this flight — exceeding the Wright Brothers' first powered trip into the air by 51 feet — is totally worth watching again. – Davey G. Johnson

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First of all, congrats to the red-eyed Kiwi Laser Leapers for winning last week's Hoon of the Week poll, with a landslide 51% of the votes. You boys continue to beat those survival odds, hear? Maybe Darwin was wrong!

It's clear that one reason the Sprint is such a great hoonmobile is its light weight, enabling hoons with the urge to catch a little air to build flimsy ramps out of, say, a van roof. When you want to jump your monster-tired Land Rover, however, you need something more substantial from which to get that all-important launch. A slab of sheet metal supported by a couple of sticks ain't gonna do the job. Oops! This one gets 5 bonus points for the nerve-shredding sound effects and another 5 for the excessive speed. We're not going to dock any points for the crappy cell-phone-camera video quality because the video is quick, to the point, and not contaminated by soundtrack, but we are docking 10 points for jumping a vehicle that is set up to survive jumps. Hoon-O-Meter reading: 29 points. – Murilee Martin

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We haven't seen too much of New Zealand in the Hoon of the Day entries, but let us not forget that the original hoons hailed from those islands! So we know we're in for some hoonage when we first spy these scruffy THC-enhanced gentlemen on the screen, and hoonage we get as they take a beater Ford Laser (a restyled Australian Mazda 323 and close Mercury Capri relative) and get some impressive jump height. +10 points for the excellent altitude and another 5 for the joint hanging from the driver's lips... but then the deductions start: -5 points for cranking the NOFX so freakin' loud we can't hear the car (dudes, we know your choice of Hoon Toon is all rebellious and shit, but put it on your ringback sound or something, eh?) and -7 points for freezing the video at the high point of the best jump. I mean, like, WTF? You freeze the video on one of the goddamn replays of the jump, not the only one we get to see! Stupid hoons! Anyway, when the dust settles, these boys walk away with a healthy 39 Hoon-O-Meter reading. – Murilee Martin

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There are so many ways to go for humorous commentary for this video. You've got your magic flying hippie bus option, the "I'm outraged that was done with a vintage Bus" method, "I can't believe I didn't try that first", and of course the SUPER FLYING BRUCE POTENTIAL angle. Being of simple upbringing, I think the funniest is to imagine that this is footage from the long lost episode in which the Duke boys finally had to sell off the General Lee in order to save the farm from the evil Boss Hogg. This of course would be the scene in which the Boys were suspected of runnin' moonshine and Rosco and Enos are hot on their trail but about to sink, defeated, in the deceptively deep water. Those Duke boys, always getting into trouble. – Ben Wojdyla

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