So here’s the deal. We’re going to be running a series of items over the coming days and weeks called “Celebrity Car Death Match” where we’ll pit two iconic cars, trucks, motorcycles, or other vehicles against one another in a tournament of death matches. Winner moves on, loser burns with the shame of defeat! This is serious stuff and we will advance a winner by the comments below the item, so be sure to chime in and tell us who the victor is and who will be rusting at the bottom of the ocean or squashed under a wrecking ball.
Celebrity car death match #1 – The General Lee VS KITT
We’re starting this deal off with a heavy weight prize fight. Two of the most beloved and iconic vehicles of the 1980s will square off and the fight may be too close to call. Each car has some advantages over the other but we’re not sure whose side that tips the fight toward. For starters, the General Lee certainly has the horsepower advantage over KITT, but KITT did have the famed turbo boost button that would launch it skyward when absolutely necessary, KITT also had a stated top speed of 300mph.
The General Lee survived hundreds, maybe thousands of improbably jumps. Both cars were used to fight evil doers, so they both have that going for them, and they both hard drivers who were known for their dashing good looks in John Schneider and The Hoff. If we’re looking at supporting characters, it would be tough to outweigh the Cooter Davenport advantage that the GL has going for it. The British guy and chick whose name we don’t remember from Knight Rider don’t have skills enough to carry Ol’ Coot’s jock strap. That’s a fact.
While neither car has any offensive weapons, the GL has Tom Wopat shooting flaming arrows with pin point accuracy (while traveling down heavily rutted dirt roads at high speed), and KITT had stuff like a grappling hook, the ability to electrocute stuff, some type of weird laser detention system, and lots of 1980s stuff that would have truly freaked the Duke Boys out!
KITT had advanced armor systems but still suffered major damaged when hit by other vehicles (the evil Goliath rig!) or bombs. The General Lee had a roll bar and a rebel flag on the roof for protection.
You know both of the combatants rolling into the ring. You are familiar with their work and their domination of the bedroom walls of kids during the 1980s. Two will enter and only one can move on. We’ll stop counting votes at midnight Pacific tonight! Tell us in the comments below who will win an autotmotive death match between the General Lee and KITT!
my surname is lee . i have an orange charger . i have to say the first winner is the general
The general lee all the way
KNIGHT INDUSTRIES TWO THOOOOUUUUSAND!!!!
General Lee. KITT would have politely balked had Michael pointed the nose towards a dirt road.
ITS NOT EASY BUT IMMA HAVE TO SAY KIT CUZ ALL THE WEAPONS AND TECHNO STUFF
The General Lee, of course, ’cause KITT was just a prop!
General Lee all the way.
KITT hand down he had a charming personality and he could drive and talk on his own
general lee!
If KITT were a “REAL” car, I would have to say KITT.. It has intelligence, and can shoot a missiles. It could strike on its own while the General Lee is just sitting there parked…
The General Lee, of course!!
I’ll go with the General Lee. The General doesn’t have any of that smog nonsense that KITT has being an 84 Trans Am. Who needs a catalytic converter?
I’ve gotta go with Kitt… Kicks butt and has more toys than the general
The General Lee.
General Lee
K.I.T.T All the way
General Lee!!!!
I have to say kitt looks fast just sitting there all the cool gadgets I had a 85 and gettin the idea from the cannonball run movie a flooded road about 5ft deep and length 50ft I hit the water doing about 125mph and made it acro
Was saying made it across the water try that with a boat anchor of a charger aka dear
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Really? Is there any red-blooded American MAN who can honestly say they’d rather have an amorphous early ’80s Trans-Am crammed full of dodgy, thirty-year-old electronics and the ever-present, nagging voice of Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels), instead of a bitchin’ NASCAR-styled ’69 Dodge Charger?
(If so, you’d better be checking THOSE ads in the back of Hot Rod to restore some lost hormones)
GENERAL LEE! YAHOOOOOOOO!
General lee
Let’s see, 440 six pack vs gas turbine, Dixie horn vs sentient talking, orange paint vs bullet proof black armor, vinyl bench seat vs leather ejection seat, mobile 18 wheel shop that will load you while moving vs hill billy mechanic who’ll come tow you sooner or later. I think I’ll go with KITT.
No contest, General Lee. Hands down. Jonny Cash never wrote a song about KITT.
The General IS real,K.I.T.T. a prop.
Genneral Lee for the win.
Sorry Kit the General is going to show you what 1957 Pontiacs looked like. It is how ever not be as bad as you think wearing stainless trim that reminds you of rail road tracks. The general will use you for a ramp lower your roofline a bit and you will apreciate the new air streamed hood also. And that bird will be anamated in 3d. Just watch the trailer for all the back ti the future.;)
I was thinking KITT at first since it can go THROUGH cement block walls,but being the General could easily blow away that 305 that powered KITT and the general does have the brush guard which makes it all the stronger im going with the General !
General all the way no contest !
K.I.T.T.
the general is redneck stuff!
Just thinking about what people thought was cool back then (Kitt) makes my brain hurt. I in with the General all the way.
This makes me long for a pastel samon shirt,white pants and top siders/no socks……….
Since you’re counting, and I’ve never seen anything with KITT in it, I’ll go with the General Lee.
general lee all the way.
General Lee. The doors didn’t even open… but you know what… they didn’t need to, that’s how badass the General is.
KITT has the brains, but the General ran on pure heart.
General Lee for me, please.
the Knight Rider only has a fricken 305 in it!