For all of you KITT fans out there, the car is back in business, but for all the David Haselhoff fans, he isn’t. Not entirely.

The new TV movie “Knight Rider” premieres on February 17, at 9 p.m., on NBC starring “All my Children” Justin Bruening, as Mike Tracer, the estranged son of Michael Knight, and the new KITT 3000, a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR.

We all know the things old Trans Am KITT could do back in the 1980s, like almost everything, but what about KITT 3000?

One of the executive producers, David Bartis promises us that the new KITT has many surprises in store for us.

Bartis says: "I think everybody knows already that the car has the ability to morph. It can shape shift a little bit in ways that enhances its handling and its abilities on the road. It also has some sort of weapon defense systems that are based on nanotechnology that I think are going to be pretty amazing when people see the way we've built the effects there. It's got a pretty deep arsenal of abilities and tricks there," mercurynews.com reports.

The movie suffered a last minute change. As Variety announced that the new voice of KITT will be that of Will Arnett, who does the commercials for GMC Trucks, the General Motors had a change of hearts and said it didn’t want Arnett for the Ford Mustang’s voice in the new movie. So Val Kilmer came in to fill the role.

You have to know that the new “Knight Rider” is not a remake of the original 1982-86 series, which had Glen A. Larson as its original creator, but a sort of pilot for a possible series producers hope for if the movie has enough viewers.

Besides Bruening in the role of Mike, we get to see Deanna Russo as ex-girlfriend Sarah Graiman and Sydney Tamiia Poitier as FBI agent Carrie Rivai.

In an interview Bartis said that Larson, who has the movie rights, has been working for a big-screen launch since 2002.

In the new movie, Mike Trance is the estranged son of Michael Knight, whose existence Knight was not aware of. Mike grew up with his mom, Jennifer Knight (Mary Kate McGeehan), who, if fans remember, appeared only once in the old series as the daughter of Wilton Knight, the founder of the Knight Industries. Jennifer took over the foundation in the fourth season opener.

A new character makes his way in the new movie, which connects it to the original series. That is Charles Graiman (Bruce Davison), Sarah's dad, who is the original creator of KITT, since from the original series we don’t know anything about who built the car ad the technology.

Will just have to see and wait if the new “Knight Rider” can lift up to the expectations of a series which made history back in the 80s and a star out of Haselhoff.