Super Pursuit Mode Activated!: Iconic Moment | Knight Rider

Watch as we activate the Super Pursuit Mode in this iconic moment from the classic series. Relive the adrenaline, the sleekness, and the nostalgia as KITT takes on a whole new level of speed and power.
From Knight Rider season 4 episode 1 ‘Knight of The Juggernaut’: The Foundation accidentally develops a powerful new isotope, Cernium 116; Jennifer Knight, Wilton's daughter, takes this opportunity to cut down on FLAG expenses; terrorist Phillip Nordstrom kidnaps Devon and replaces him.
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[@belabahn]

The boomboom device is "mercury weighted" and "an attempt can set it off", yet Michael yanks it off the wall like there's no tomorrow. 🤣

[@kleetus92]

and grabs it at 2 seconds and take 4 to pull the blasting caps out...

[@CapitalNick]

@@kleetus92 Which somehow simultaneously stops the clock.

[@andreasu.3546]

@@CapitalNick Well, he was a genius beyond human comprehension. Did you know he later tore down the Berlin wall single handedly?

[@nitrox28]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gedias1]

Even as a kid, I thought 250 mph in a city was ridiculous.

[@kleetus92]

On the plus side, he'd skip right over the pot holes...

[@mbirth]

That pickup going about 200 at 1:50 is even more ridiculous. 😉

[@Strideo1]

Some poor kid just trying to cross at a crosswalk wouldn't stand a chance.

[@Greippi10]

Also no seatbelt. After the emergency braking system he would've kept going through the windshield for a few more blocks 😂

[@peterjohnson9438]

Ah, the 80s, when the only speed limit for a vehicle was the motor on the VCR that fast forwards the footage...

[@UnknownRaiderGuy]

Greatest TV car of all time

[@lookingforahookup]

I’ve always wanted one

[@MyGuyJustinH]

I agree 👍

[@alexmckeel9128]

2nd to the general lee

[@jordaneastwood6678]

Nope that's the general lee or the interceptor from mad max the last of the v8s

[@UnknownRaiderGuy]

@@jordaneastwood6678 Your opinion on mad max maybe general Lee could be up for debate but mad max is just a opinion

[@iankravitz5723]

Actually, Michael arrived 14 seconds AFTER the bomb shouldv'e gone off! So, thank goodness for faulty bombs!

[@mrparkerdan]

If there had been a season 5, KITT would have been upgraded to Ludicrous mode 😂

[@rodscarbrough2337]

can you imagine KITT turning into a transformer as another upgrade?

[@astralmarmaux]

@@rodscarbrough2337 didn't that already happpened?

[@juliocamacho8354]

Imagine all that plaid.

[@gedias1]

​@@rodscarbrough2337 KARR pretty much did, ironically with the voice of Optimus Prime.

[@FrancisLukesh]

Entering super pursuit mode! **proceeds to add twice the coefficient of drag to the car**

[@pam1244]

Ahh the very first SPM, brings back memories.

[@knighriderredux]

I loved SPM's function of clearing any traffic in its wake. For me, this was its Jump the Shark moment.

[@MyGuyJustinH]

I did, too

[@nicholasdickens2801]

I think they were looking at a gimmick for a toy or wanted to do Transformers maybe. I genuinely don’t know what they were thinking lol!

[@OddlyIncredible]

Yeah, the show was getting silly by that point but the pop-out spoilers everywhere spoiled more than just aerodynamics. Definitely a shark-jump.

[@darkherostar]

nah. I just think K.I.T.T. sent out traffic overrides that changed traffic patterns around him and so there would be less cars around. Kind of how Batman does the same in Gotham. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it!

[@xpertvis]

What is the 'C' button for ?

[@Sonicgott]

For those wonder why the wings come out of KITT during SPM, it’s essentially to keep KITT on the ground during high speeds, otherwise KITT would go flying.

[@Kevo1993]

No one asked

[@aurorajones8481]

Ironic... those wings are on race cars in real motor sports right now/ In fact my moto has wings like that on it. They don't pop out they are static but they do help keep the bike planted for high speed pulls and hard braking stability. KITT has active areo, something only high end cars have now. In many respects we have cars like kit now. I can and do talk to my car, it talks back gives data, directions, active areo... Im missing missile and gun ports but what can you do.

[@LuisMane1]

Flying KITT would be too op

[@ladymecha8718]

Thanks, I was wondering.

[@simon1italy]

No, it's because it looks cool

[@xenodee027]

I always loved hearing the spm powering up it gave me pins and needles when i was little 😊

[@Vampiraheq2]

After all these years, I just realized that Bonnie said she developed two new systems to make up for the lack of the molecular bonded shell. I think it would be terrifying to use super pursuit mode. going 300mph without that shell.

[@IdgaradLyracant]

Wouldn't matter. The molecular bonding only prevented deformation of the body. The kinetic energy, compression waves, all that still would happen. Being in an indestructible paint can won't change the fact you're in a paint shaker when it hits things. If KITT, bonding or not going 300 MPH hits a wall, and decelerates down to 15 MPH all that inertia has to go somewhere. Michael is going to slam into his seatbelt at 300 MPH at say 200 Lbs of human. That won't be pretty. You hope that KITT with the bonding hits a wall and goes from 300 MPH to say 290 MPH.

[@mikegallant811]

​@@IdgaradLyracantThat's what the passive laser restraint system is for. Think of it as a inertial damping field

[@Krahazik]

@@IdgaradLyracant You do have a point, and kid has suffered internal damage before when taking heavy hits from things like rockets and such.

[@kleetus92]

@@IdgaradLyracant he'd be red soup in the defrost vent!

[@DGneoseeker1]

@@mikegallant811 THAT IS NOT HOW LASERS WORK. What a bizarre choice of technology to use a a fancy seat belt.

[@pam1244]

And Michael goes into a room with a bomb ready to go off in 2 seconds. 😅😅

[@cerealfibre6938]

6:44 Oh my, just one second left!😱😱😱😱

[@stevenallan5822]

Lol, continuity error, so the bomb has a Mercury switch so any movement will set it off, so Michael arrives and pulls it off the wall and pulls out all the wires!! Apart from that.......

[@Avatar2312]

Apart from that they drove twice along the same stretch of road during first SPM, the timer of the bomb reached 0, when KITT entered the vault, and any interior shot of KITT (also in future episodes) while in SPM still show him unaltered (rear spoiler not raised). Lots of errors, but while I see them, I don't mind :)

[@iankravitz5723]

Did anyone notice that only the driver of the Juggernaut is wearing a helmet, but no one else? - The C button makes KITT into a convertible!

[@TwesomE]

I don't think it would helped him when kitt and michael blew them sky high though! 😂 I still remember though in this scene that the guy escaped the jugernaut vehicle before it blew up,do you think he died?!? 😅

[@ultrasometimes8908]

Go go gadget mobile! Love this cheese!

[@user-tr7ic6mu7o]

KITT🚗🚘 is back 😋

[@user-tr7ic6mu7o]

KITT🚗🚘's Super Pursuit Mode very fast Wow 😲😲.

[@maxwelllionheart9945]

With that speed Michael should be flying out of the car when he engage the EBS as he's not wearing any seatbelt. 🤔

[@squallofthedai]

Wasn't that the Passive Laser Restraint's job though?

[@DGneoseeker1]

@@squallofthedai Ah yes a magic laser that mysteriously holds someone in place and breaks physics instead of burning a hole through them.

[@24hoursstagefright]

Quote: "WOW!"

[@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212]

That's why I love Sci-Fi.

[@dspencer8827]

Greatest tv car ever

[@Taluien]

300mph. Seatbelt nowhere in sight. It was a different time.

[@smallfaucet]

And plenty of fuel to spare.

[@donniecatalano]

You bet. My elementary school teacher used to smoke 4 to 6 cigarettes in the classroom while teaching us.

[@Xingmey]

ahhh back from the days, when TV used to be fun to watch Bad guys were bad and defeated by the end of the story :) and episodes were self contained... aa you can drop in whenever you feel like and not have to watch 4 seasons prior to that one episode

[@ching-chenhuang8119]

To this day, I still have no idea where this Super Pursuit mode panel is located, I watched a youtube video introducing a second-hand prop KITT in private collection, the owner still didn't mention it.

[@DaveS_shuttle]

Neither the SPM nor EBS buttons ever existed on the actual KITT Trans-Am's. It was an so called "insert dash panel" that only existed as a prop piece in the main Universal Studio's lot for close up filming. Same thing whenever a button is pressed on the main dash.

[@Jesse31597]

All that just to get there 4 minutes quicker, epic.

[@markusrode5853]

Meine absolute Lieblingsserie

[@jimdanielson272]

The 82 trans Am is the best looking American car ever.

[@fallingwater]

John DeLorean wants to know your location

[@jasonharrod3070]

Adds a bunch of drag, doesn't fix sloppy suspension or the 80's slushbox transmission. Yeah I'd say KITT could be optimized a bit more.

[@paulrandig]

Ah, the era before blue or white LEDs!

[@jasonmixon4163]

I love how well-dressed the bad guys were back in the 80s. It's like they did a quick stop at JC Penny's or something...

[@franzweber7494]

This is Commandant Eric Lassard from the Police Academy 😊

[@mrparkerdan]

That is very very very very … false 😂

[@ritazellweger3040]

Love it😊

[@mclaine7342]

Will always remember this scene, i was so amazed i couldn´t sleep that night as a kid!^^

[@shawnmorris7383]

I just got so much happiness from watching this LOL. I was 10 years old when I last watched this and I absolutely adored this show. I’ll never forget begging my parents to allow me to stay up past my bed time just to watch it. Also, it was hilariously silly now to see it as an adult. When that idiot shots the elevator I almost lost it. 😂 On a side note, it’s scary how well Google knows me to suggest this video.

[@troy2832]

"Between you and me the silence is intriguing." 😅

[@stychentyme]

Haha,... I remember loving this back in the day!!

[@gearheadgregwi]

On tiny all-sesson radials. The 80s

[@gustavosaliola]

The beautiful "Getting away with Everything" 80's, where Michael pressed SPM and KITT magically went from the city to a complete different location at 1:49 and back to the city again. And of course, nobody complaining because Super Pursuit Mode.

[@zshan1895]

"Suppers in the back seat and momma's home hungry" 😂

[@fallingwater]

I can't get over the guy at 0:35 who's so happy KITT is operational he jumps like he's dancing italodisco

[@RyneLanders]

It's a good thing that big metropolitan city didnt have traffic, cross streets, uneven pavement, or any need for the protagonist to go anywhere but straight.

[@ikondrift]

What would a car need for pursuits? That's right, more taillights!

[@Pesete72]

Let's try and shoot an elevator door open?! Seriously? 😂

[@mkwanster07]

Kind of cool, if my gas pedal lit up like that

[@CanadianChiGuy23]

Even in 1986 there is no daylight hour in Chicago where the streets are THAT empty.

[@janbuawa7658]

Mój ulubiony serial ♥️😁🇵🇱

[@MStanislav555]

One question Why the guards were shooting the elevator's door?

[@jessihawkins9116]

makes no sense to me either 🤷

[@shawnmorris7383]

OMG I laughed so hard at that 😂

[@afriend9428]

*WOW!*

[@ladymecha8718]

No cops seeing Kitt clocking 250 mph? Ah the days before radar tracking. lol 😂

[@oldRighty1]

They saw him, they just couldn't catch him!

[@jasontechlord]

I would not go that fast on Chicago streets even in the 80's.

[@FirstDan2000]

The new SPM does look fast In this episode. A pity that look doesn't last. "Kitt what's this button marked C over here?" "Nevermind that, what's that button marked Boost 2? " "No idea pal. Better not find out." "Where's the bomb Kitt" "Over there on the wall to your left. Just press the button marked Stop Reset.... Oh, never mind. You did it Your way."

[@northstarprimejaguar0076]

Super Pursuit Mode. 0 to "What the ----!!?" on short notice. 😅

[@dimitrislagos4594]

❤❤❤❤

[@jamarek100]

that brake test without seat belts :D:D

[@RunnerLogan]

Where we're going we don't need seatbelts!

[@rickquick8977]

What a way to dismantle a bomb

[@juliocamacho8354]

0:23 "something's on the back seat, and momma's hungry" ‽

[@SubjectiveObserver]

supper's on the back seat. Food. Implying he needs to get there fast to deliver it.

[@hyperdude144]

I used to have a remote control toy car version of this at home!!!!

[@TwesomE]

I wonder if the show would continue what kind of upgrades kitt would had,and also what kind of dangerous villains they would face in each end of the other seasons! Did they had perhaps ready scripts for a fifth season? 🤔

[@tripleairgoddess]

Tcog. Definitely become a Transformer.

[@mrparkerdan]

In a BTTF crossover episode, Doc Brown will install a hover conversion.

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

Yes there were scripts in the works but due to costs ect NBC pulledvthe plug and cancelled it.

[@TwesomE]

@@mrparkerdan Just imagine that,even though for knight rider the time travel consept would be a bit too much! Since there's nothing else escaping the gaps of reality in the series,except the super machines consept like kitt time travel would be taking things too far! 😅

[@juliocamacho8354]

Too cool for a seat belt.

[@rjkatka2319]

Kitt.. had baby later name ...Siri and Tesla 😂😂

[@midwestkrazy83turner50]

LMAO 😂💯

[@nicholasdickens2801]

So cool you don’t see the modifications through the back window. 😂😊😉😉

[@InAMinMaths]

0:43 Example of Polish driving. Absolutely insane overtake

[@InAMinMaths]

Same road as ☝️ 1:52

[@tye350]

Yeah, right 300 miles an hour on the city Street. Yeah OK.

[@jg4902]

Asano would be proud

[@tommyb6611]

- car AI in the 80s sci fi: helps human solve crimes and autonomous assist to the best of it's abilities - car AI in the reality 40 years into the future: spying on human drivers, reporting everything they do and say to the home servers for better ad placement and even worse, report to the establishment whatever is going on within the vehicle without the knowledge or consent of the occupants. Also can provide some generic chat, like that is what drivers ever need

[@SubjectiveObserver]

To be clear, scifi has been predicting the pros and the cons of technology for decades. Cyberpunk is an old genre, and they made plenty of warnings in the 80s too. It's just that tv shows were more shallow and lighthearted.

[@AldenRDavis]

1:39 - SUPER PURSUIT MODE

[@Janet71990]

We want more Knight Rider Transformers crossover future 🙏

[@Boycott_Wendys]

At 3:05 he shoots the elevator 😅😅😅

[@midwestkrazy83turner50]

LMAO

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

shooting randomly at metal elevator doors from 1 meter lol....

[@delawarepilot]

AI voice assistant, turn by turn gps directions, self driving. Complete disregard for speed limits, this is 2024 :-)

[@sasuipunhu31]

It is Now ...mode sport+ activated.. Rear spoiler rise. And traction control

[@user-vn4ne4co1u]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Devi1_Z]

This Super Pursuit Mode could give a Veyron a run for its money

[@flex2flex640]

Rear deck spoiler still in same position as the non pursuit mode...

[@user-ex2ed7sx2j]

Knight rider 2

[@CapitalNick]

LOL 265+ mph on city streets.

[@joshjosh7308]

glad he was driving so fast, shaved a whole 6 minutes off

[@MusikCassette]

3:08 what exactly did they try to achieve by shooting at the elevator?

[@DebraGillard]

ilovedyoukittandmicheltoo.

[@MindCaged]

Just noticed 0:30 They're in a hurry and he puts it in 1st instead of drive.

[@nordennature]

lol

[@user-tr7ic6mu7o]

Michael save Devon Miles 🤗

[@danielfietkau733]

260 in an urban area 😂

[@Daddy_B]

I watched this show during the original run. I just noticed he's not wearing a seatbelt. That is some irresponsible crime-fighting.

[@benjamingrams333]

thats what the "passive laser restraint system" (or something) is for

[@rickquick8977]

I hope someday my Cybertruck will have the front light like KITT

[@OriginalZo1]

The day I saw spm I lost my fu

[@kazimir8086]

250mph and he's not even wearing a seatbelt

[@PositronicDiscombobulator]

Shooting the door didn't work?

[@FrankJohn]

Movie timers âre ridiculously slow.

[@ITSolutionsNetwork]

I'm wondering if movies from today will look like this awkward in the future....

[@gratefuljr]

Did Michael ever tap Bonnie?

[@mrparkerdan]

No. He didn’t get any April either. 😥

[@resetsetmefree478]

0:44 can anyone in chi town explain this? That is definitely nowhere near Monroe Street! Monroe is just a block over from the Sears Tower! And yet it is a Chicago street sign ! I would really like to know what the story is here....🤔

[@user-sb6fj6er5w]

Jezzz It's A Freaking Tv Show 😮😮

[@resetsetmefree478]

@@user-sb6fj6er5w I should not have used so many exclamation marks and idk why I did that....

[@enosunim]

So what is this C button does anyway?

[@twoblink]

No seat belts..

[@ryanmartie1244]

I don't remember...what was the C button for?

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

Convertible mode.

[@lookingforahookup]

This isn’t season 4 episode 1.

[@FormulaManuel]

It is

[@pam1244]

It is however it's part 2 of 2. It was originally aired as a 2 part episode on TV. It was supposed to be a season 4 movie but instead split it into the 2 parts.

[@gordonliddy7971]

**WHY NDIDNT DEVON OR MICHAEL TAKE THE TAPE OPFF HER MOUTH????**

[@MLAM168]

If you can watch the full episode you’ll understand why.

[@gordonliddy7971]

@@MLAM168***tell me now!! rah rah rah!!!!**

[@ModdingNewbie]

Comedy relief?

[@dersieborg5088]

The real question is why she can't take it into her own hands. (2:25) (Script glue, I suppose)

[@SS-io5ld]

Did anyone realize that the villain with the beard is william daniels? The voice of kitt

[@anthonydechiara8586]

No, it isn't William Daniels. He was the voice of KITT for all 4 seasons. The guy with the beard is actor John Considine, he plays the villain Phillip Nordstrom.

[@mitchkatz4918]

why not have another character play an evil role.

[@sas2300]

Ahhhh the 80s .... everything about this is nonsense 😂😂

[@LEXXIUS]

Nevertheless, it's still enjoyable!