2 things they missed on the new design

[maverik]

If I where a designer on the show my 2 rules would have been:

1) we need to keep the scanner and have it look the same as the original because everything else on the car is going to be radically different

2) we need to keep KITTS "mouth" (the 3 blinky lines for lack of a better description) the same and keep it in the same position over the steering wheel

In my rule book, you never want to deviate too much from what makes something recognizable as an icon and visually kitt had really only 3 things going for it: scanner, “mouth”, steering wheel.

I understand why they went with the split scanner as it worked better with the design of the car, however, I would rather they had reworked the front of the car to accommodate the scanner better or gone with a different car with a better profile for it.

[Michael Pajaro]

2) we need to keep KITTS "mouth" (the 3 blinky lines for lack of a better description) the same and keep it in the same position over the steering wheel

Since this is a new character, I don't think they need to have the exact same voice modulator. But I do agree it should be based upon the same basic concept of three columns of lights. KITT and KARR and similar but different voice modulators, I'd like to see a third variation.

[KRAvengerII]

Question; how do we know that the car they unveiled, is gonna look like that when the pilot is shown?

[89IROCNDoug]

Question; how do we know that the car they unveiled, is gonna look like that when the pilot is shown?

They have already been filming the show and are in the process of filming it, so I really doubt that they would unveil something different to the public. (highly unlikely, anyways)

We don't know what the voice modulator thing (if it has one) and interior really looks like yet, though. Maybe they want to keep it a surprise.

[krfan1]

Regarding the scanner, I'm pretty sure we haven't seen the final version.

In a previous thread, Shapeshifter said the designers kept the old scanner, but were told to change it. He claims it is pretty cool. (I will try and locate his post where he said this).

EDIT (Found it!): viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10460&p=125605#p125605

A lot of comments (mostly negative) have been made about the scanner, or the lack of scanner, or whatever. I have a little story to relate about that. When the design team came back to the producers with the original concept for the scanner, if was the traditional 8-segment led light bar. The producers told them "That's not going to cut it, go do it better." What they came back with, I'm not going to say here. But suffice to say it's much more imaginative and way cooler, and you haven't seen it yet.

krfan1

[kitt1987]

The biggest thing they missed out on are the PMD seats! lol