In the episode entitled, "Circus Knight" there is a scene where Michael and KITT were chasing a jeep equipped with a flamethrower. They managed to disabled it by turbo boosting over it and shattering it to pieces. The moment KITT landed on all fours, the front fender didn't even scratched the ground. I had to freeze frame it shot by shot to get a closer look and sure enough there was no damage, at least from an external viewpoint. I know that several stunt cars were built for this purpose and usually after they jumped, the cars were destroyed. But how were the special effects team able to pull that off that turbo boost jump without the aid of ramps, and with no front fender-bender damage? With hydraulics perhaps?
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Michael Pajaro wrote:As far as turbo boosts go, that was a pretty small jump. It may simply have been that the reinforced shocks were enough to handle it since the jump wasn't very high.
Yes, exactly. That particular jump was indeed a small one. It just goes to show you that no car in the world can drive away fully intact without a scratch after performing a high jump, unless KITT was a dune buggy or 4x4. That's what those things are built for.
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