Mio's Knight Rider GPS speaks with the voice of KITT -- we're in love

Move over, Dash Express. Take a seat, Garmin and Tom Tom. As of right now there's only one GPS unit worth buying, and it's this trick Knight Rider unit from Mio that issues directions in the voice of KITT. Yep, Mr. Feeney William Daniels is gonna be right there with you, although we doubt he'll be as tolerant of your skin-tight pants and unkempt chest hair this time around. Underneath the hood it's basically the same Mio kit as you'd expect, only it boots up by saying "Hello Michael, where do you want to go today?" uses a cartoon Trans-Am to represent your car, and features dual LED scanner lights on each side. Yes, we're in love. $270 is all it'll take when this thing hits in a few months -- 10 points to the first reader to get a picture of it inside a KITT replica.

[Via Autoblog]

[EMaster Posted Jun 20th 2008 5:27PM]

.... Ejaculating... I can;t get my credit card out fast enough! Where can I buy it?!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2008 5:31PM]

"Puerto Ricans are lazy, Michael." - Chappelle Show

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2008 11:56PM]

DAMMIT GOD FUCKING DAMMIT YOU BEAT ME

I WAS GONNA COME IN AND SAY IT BUT NOOOOOO

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 21st 2008 3:50PM]

lNow why you have to say that man? I'm Puerto Rican. That was funny though didn't see it coming.lol.. I'm getting that GPS for my 2005 745i. CHICK MAGNET BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2008 6:01PM]

FUNNY STUFF! :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2008 5:34PM]

Or you can drive for one year in the new KITT-alike, with a Pioneer GPS: http://www.pioneer.be/nl/page/products/NavGate/mustang.html
(Only in 4 Benelux)

[Dano Posted Jun 20th 2008 5:50PM]

The Hoff says, "Jump in my car!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgX-hiQdfFw

[psyclotron Posted Jun 20th 2008 5:56PM]

oh my gentle jesus, that was ass awful

[psyclotron Posted Jun 20th 2008 6:04PM]

is it me, or is it even more of a sausage fest around here lately?

[skooled Posted Jun 20th 2008 6:26PM]

Hmm, Fremont, CA.

[rutter9 Posted Jun 20th 2008 6:49PM]

my tomtom navigator on my cell phone did this about 2 years ago. for free..

[CaptCaveman Posted Jun 20th 2008 6:51PM]

I'm going to wait for the C.A.R.R. model from Stroker and Hoop...

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2008 7:05PM]

For once, I'm actually pleased that my first name really *IS* Michael.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2008 7:26PM]

lol

[LifeSizeActionFigure Posted Jun 20th 2008 7:04PM]

This is the first GPS unit I've ever gotten excited about.

[decypher44 Posted Jun 20th 2008 7:18PM]

This will be my first GPS unit. Yes, it will. BNow, for them to get crackin' on customizing the startup to reference the actual user's name. I know it can be done. Years ago I bought my daughter a talking Elmo that said her name in the different phrases he spoke.

[Smacksmackums Posted Jun 20th 2008 7:26PM]

SO EFFING SOLD YOU CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!

[ajgago Posted Jun 20th 2008 7:29PM]

this is soo cool

[TIMMAH Posted Jun 20th 2008 7:55PM]

The lights on the sides needs to scan depending on whether the next turn on the GPS is going to be right or left.

Too bad the TeleAtlas maps suck so bad. Been there, done that, I'm done with Mio...

[chrismcdowell25 Posted Jun 20th 2008 8:53PM]

Dunno if I'd buy it. There isnt a McDonalds there. Their map looks a bit off also.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mcdonalds&sll=37.50816,-121.96558&sspn=0.015473,0.012832&ie=UTF8&ll=37.506934,-121.958199&spn=0.061892,0.051327&z=14

[scolen2 Posted Jun 20th 2008 8:57PM]

OMG, why did this take so long to be made! It was so obvious! Now, i just need the cops to talk like cylons and i'm set

[scolen2 Posted Jun 20th 2008 9:01PM]

Now my car can look like Darth Vaders bathroom too!

[hotpuck6 Posted Jun 20th 2008 10:07PM]

Too bad the second you leave it in your car to show off, someone breaks in and steals it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2008 11:41PM]

Knight Rider is going to McDonalds at 9:35 in the morning?

Either Knight Rider works at McDonalds, or they didn't see Super Size Me.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 21st 2008 12:52AM]

Does it come with Deutschland maps for friends of the Hoff?

[BowserUSC Posted Jun 21st 2008 2:57AM]

Hmm, I might have to buy a car just to use this.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 21st 2008 5:59AM]

Does it also play bad cover versions of well-known eighties rock ballads?

[ian9outof10 Posted Jun 21st 2008 9:03AM]

I've just had a trouser accident.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 21st 2008 11:57AM]

I had never had a GPS unit in my car before.

UNTIL I SAW THIS!!!

Mine!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 21st 2008 12:26PM]

Why couldn't it have been Darth Vader instead of Kitt? Or Yoda? Could you imagine hmmmm turn right at the next corner you will.

[hamiltonguy Posted Jun 21st 2008 1:02PM]

awesome. now somebody needs to make one with Majel Barret's voice.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 24th 2008 1:28AM]

FUCK YEAH!

2 things...ditch the knight rider logo & put a single scanner bar in it's place instead of one on each side. then pay williams daniels some extra coin to pronounce a bunch of different names so you can select your own. "turn left, Daniel" I'd use that thing for directions EVERYWHERE.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 11:01PM]

That's what I thought they should do. But now I realize that the LED's on the side weren't meant to simulate what was on the front of the car, but rather, were meant to display something similar to the LED display that was found *inside* the car where the voice module was found (LED's I had forgotten about).

Now that it has Daniels' voice, does in fact speak a bunch of names, and at least shows the front scanner on start up, it sounds like Mio did a great job. But yeah, the logo on top has to go - nothing a bit of black decal-type vinyl couldn't cover up.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 23rd 2008 11:04PM]

Surely they could have come up with a new GUI for the release rather than just making the old Navman GUI black.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/navmans-s70-navigation-system-surfaces/

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 23rd 2008 11:05PM]

Surely they could have come up with a new GUI for the release rather
than just making the old Navman S Series GUI black.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/navmans-s70-navigation-system-surfaces/

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 25th 2008 11:52AM]

Whats the point of the machine talking to you if you can't talk back using voice recognition?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 25th 2008 1:22PM]

For anyone who lives in the Bay Area, anyone notice that KITT is headed to Fry's?