Re: rwd vs fwd: what I am saying
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:07 pm
We don't know the exact reason why Glen Larson chose the '82 Trans Am for KITT, perhaps Victor Kros would be graceous enough to shed some light on it, but it is ridiculous to spend so much time talking this point into the ground. RWD is CLEARLY superior to FWD when it comes to a performance machine..which is what KITT is. KITT, the '82 Trans Am, is a sports car: RWD (AWD in some sports cars), powerful engine, and usually 2-doors. RWD is superior to FWD in terms of performance cars because when a car takes off from a stop, the suspension shifts to allow the weight of the vehicle to be shifted towards the rear, thus providing more traction to the driving wheels and providing better performance. In a FWD car, when it takes of from a stop, the weight is still shifted to the rear, because you can't change physics, at the same time providing LESS traction to the driving front wheels. This is why performance cars are primarily driven to the rear wheels.Lost Knight wrote:I can't catch up with all of this nonsense at the moment. Here are simple examples: If the Acura NSX Sports Coupe Concept AND the '09 Camaro (which are the top two contenders for K.I.T.T. in my opinion) were FWD, does that mean they can never be used? The '82 Trans Am was picked because Glen "simply liked the look of that car." He based it on LOOKS. The fact that the Trans Am is RWD was something that happened to work as a benefit later on for the type of scenes it would be involved in. Is anyone going to tell me that with a $100 million-budget that the drivetrain of whatever car is chosen will be the deciding factor?! With $100 million dollars you can build a shell on top of a RWD vehicle; you can create/erase tire smoke during doughnuts; you can even create the entire damn car as a computer graphic, etc. It's not as important as everybody thinks.
KITT is, undoubtedly a performance machine, and needs to have the rear wheels driven by the drivetrain.
Honestly that is more than enough on this topic, as it is being beat to the ground. Clearly we will not change your mind as to why your thinking is flawed, so there's no sense in arguing about it any more.