K.I.T.T. Voted UK's Favourite Custom Car

[Knight Rider Archive]

The following story has been released in a number of AP sources (an article can be found in today's (Friday, 24/06/05) edition of London's Metro newspaper):

KITT, the souped-up Pontiac Trans-Am that vied with actor David Hasselhoff for the limelight in the 1980s television series "Knight Rider," was judged Britain's favourite customised car by MTV viewers on Friday.

The low-slung, blacked-out KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) beat the Batmobile into second place and left James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 eating its dust in third.

"KITT and I are honoured and humbled by this award ... for a car over 23-years-old to still have enough grip in its tyres to stay on top, shows we really were ahead of our time," Hasselhoff, who played Michael Knight in the series, said in a statement.

The MTV survey asked viewers to vote on the contenders' "pimp" appeal or the quality of add-on gadgets and overall desirability.

KITT and Hasselhoff entertained millions of British children in the 1980s who tuned in to watch the antics of a car that could travel at 300 mph and leap 50 foot in the air.

The car could also talk and boasted its own personality -- slightly haughty, sometimes peevish, but always protective of Hasselhoff.

MTV said 2,100 people responded to its online poll which was introduced to mark the launch later this month of "Pimp My Ride UK", a show which sees cars transformed into "blinging pimp mobiles".

The programme, which attracted over nine million viewers last year, will be presented by hip hop DJ Tim Westwood.

Among other cars rated was the De Lorean of "Back To The Future" at number four, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at number five and Del Boy Trotter's Reliant Robin from "Only Fools And Horses" at six.

- Paul
- http://www.knightriderarchive.com

[FuzzieDice]

Cool article!

[Knight224]

Agreed!

[Lyn]

I think KITT would win in a U.S. survey of MTV viewers in the survey for best Tv car here in America, too, provided that we can get over our reality TV mentality for a few seconds....
I sure love that KITT was voted number 1 in the TV vehicle department there in the U.K., though!:)

[Lost Knight]

It's really refreshing to see K.I.T.T. beat out the General Lee for a change! Actually, the General didn't even make it to the top 6. I sense that Europe is so in love with Hasselhoff that they couldn't help but vote for KITT. But I can't believe that he beat out the Batmobile. That's impressive.

[K.I.T.T.2002.]

Great, We knew this all along though didnt we