David Bartis on the decision to go with the Ford Mustang instead of an old Trans-Am :

"Well, if we stuck with the Trans-Am it would have to be an old one. It’s not really a model they make anymore. We had a lot of discussions and debates on how much to reinvent the show and how much to keep the same, and it was a real balancing act for us. We knew that we wanted to bring the car to a new audience and reinvent it enough and that meant going out with a new model. We also knew it had to be American, it had to put 2-door, it had to have some muscle to it, and it had to be exciting to watch. When you line up all of the options available that fulfill those requirements - for me, personally, it became sort of an obvious choice. We started digging into all of the models and lines available and Ford showed us this new Shelby, which isn’t even on the market yet and it blew us away. That car is pretty cool.

"Obviously for the original fans there’s a lot of loyalty and strong feelings about the car and we understand that and we felt the same way. But we also knew that we had to bring the show to a new audience and reinvent it. We made a choice that we thought was the best choice out there and we’re pretty excited with the car and happy with the way it turned out."

Justin Bruening on getting to drive the real Shelby and not the pod car :

"Yeah, I never got to really open it up or anything, obviously insurance would have loved that, but just from point-A to point-B. You know, little things. Just turning it on you can feel how much power it has."

David Bardis on the Knight Rider movie leading into a series or whether it's close ended :

"It’s kind of both. It’s positioned so you know that we have all of the players in place to go to series, but we don’t wrap everything up."

Bruening on the relationship between Mike Traceur and Sarah :

"Sarah is Mike’s potential love interest. She was someone in his life a while ago. They grew up together and that friendship blossomed into a romance, but it ended poorly. The movie picks up at that point when she comes back into his life. So you get all of that drama and conflict that they love on daytime."

David Bardis on the abilities of the new KITT :

"Well, there’s obviously going to be a lot of new tricks that the car can do and I’m not going to give them all away. This is funny: one of the most frequent questions we’re asked is, ‘Does the car have turbo boost?’ So we know how passionate people are about what the car can do and we’ve gone into [being] really aware that it’s something important to the audience. We spent a lot of time building in some pretty cool tricks. I think everybody knows already that the car has the ability to morph. It can shape-shift a little bit in ways that it enhances its handling and abilities on the road. It also has weapons defense systems based on nanotechnology that I think will be pretty amazing when people see the way we built the effects there. It’s got a pretty deep arsenal of abilities and tricks, and the exciting thing for us, if we’re lucky enough to go to series, is that we have this long list of things we want to roll out and show people in each episode. In the two-hour pilot, people will get to see that the car has the ability to change colors, shift shapes, defend itself against bullets, and repair itself. I mean, there's some pretty cool effects that are as good as any you're going to see in a $100 million movie."

Bruening on the type of driver he is in real life:

"I’m a very good driver. I have all of my points, everything, I’m good. Not to the degree that KITT does, but I can hold my own."

Bruening on whether Will Arnett’s voice is ever stuck in his head while driving his own car :

[laughs] "I was talking to him yesterday."