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Filmed while the third-generation Trans Am was still brand new, this MotorWeek retro review evaluates the third-generation Trans Am completely on its own merits — new styling, real road performance, and an engine that didn’t quite live up to its own marketing. Watch the car exactly as period reviewers judged it, before it became KITT.
A European reviewer takes on a 1988 Pontiac Trans Am built on the same third-generation Firebird body as Knight Rider’s KITT, and the reply section pushes back hard, pointing to a turbocharged 1989 pace car edition that hit 0-60 in under five seconds. Between childhood nostalgia, a giant hood decal, and genuine performance numbers, viewers aren’t ready to call this car pretty poor. Watch to see both sides of the argument play out.