We're about to be "blessed" in quotes, with a new Knight Rider. I've already gone off on a rant about it here:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/270528/

It really does stand as a sort of yardstick, for just how far things have fallen, in the entertainment world. Once upon a time, way back in the misty depths of history, TV cars used to not suck.

The Monkeemobile, The Batmobile, The original Knight 2000, the Munster Koach, DRAG-ula, The "Good Guys" taxi, Wonderbug, The A-Team van, The General Lee, The Bugaloos Buggy, Green Hornet's Black Beauty....

Cars on TV used to be rolling works of art, not merely product placement, (with the voice-over actor from the company's car commercials providing the voice.)

In the parts of the entertainment world, where all those great custom rides used to live, we now get nothing but lame consumer advertising. When was the last time you saw a hot custom ride on TV, as a featured performer? The last one I can think of was on Home Improvement, over a decade ago.

Big industry has blown it. entertainment has become product, has become pablum. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do.
Follow the punk ethos and DIY.

So, that's what I've done - presenting Talboc's TRICKSTER. Bad wheels, for a bad dude. Custom bubbletop hotrod, with chrome trim (including a studebaker bulletnose). The blown engine provides power to the road through a set of thick redline meats strapped onto a pro-street rear end.

If that doesn't get your HotWheels spinning, nothing will.

My tribute to Barris and Jeffries, with a little Ed Roth thrown in.

Because cars don't have to suck.

As for that thing behind him on the hillside? You'll find out more about that later.