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Today being the day of the premiere of the new Knight Rider, this commercial using another big show of the 80’s is particularly appropriate. The Fall Guy was hugely popular in Germany and Germans were almost as fans of Lee Majors [...]

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The big premiere party took place on February 12 at the famous Playboy Mansion, with Hugh Hefner, David Hasselhoff, Justin Bruening, a bunch of stars and the whole Knight Rider crew. And of course KITT in normal and Attack modes. It might seem [...]

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The Brits really have some cool car TV shows. We knew Top Gear, of course, but we recently discovered Fifth Gear and it looks like a fun program.
In this video, one of their journalist/pilot, Vicki Butler-Henderson, takes the Dodge Charger from the Dukes [...]

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If you follow the news regarding the new Knight Rider, you already know that Will Arnett has been replaced by Val Kilmer as KITT’s voice. This happened just a few weeks before the premiere, when either GM or Ford realised it [...]

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Not too long ago we spotted a replica of Eleanor, the car from the remake of Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and we told you all about it in a
previous article. When looking for reference pictures, we came across the [...]

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On February 17th, right after the premiere of the two-hour Knight Rider movie, NBC and Ford will launch a
contest where participants could win four Ford vehicles, including a Shelby Mustang GT500KR “just like KITT” (read black with matte black stripes).
To [...]

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As you can tell, today is Pontiac day, with two commercials relying on recent movies. The first one was linked to Transformers, with Megan Fox (read our previous article:
Megan Fox hearts Pontiac), while the second one, entirely in black and [...]

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Before Transformers hit the screens last year, GM was already capitalizing on its product placement in the summer blockbuster to boost its sales with several [...]

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digg_url = ‘http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/02/09/kitt-is-back-the-newest-nbc-commercial/’;Only a week away from the 2 hours pilot of the new Knight Rider, the marketing is getting more and more aggressive and NBC airing new commercials.
Here, Justin Bruening (as Mike Tracer) is being explained that the Foundation is back and [...]

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The results from the poll are here and it’s a tie for the Batmobile and Christine, with 33% of the votes.
33% Batmobile (movies and TV shows)
33% Christine (Plymouth Fury)
25% DeLorean (Back to the Future trilogy)
8% The Fast and Furious vehicles
So what are we [...]

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