The new KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand) is the coolest car ever created and someone is willing to do anything to obtain it. Sarah Graiman is a 24-year old PhD candidate at Stanford, following in her genius father Charles' footsteps. When she receives word from KITT that her father is missing, they set out to find and recruit childhood pal and former boyfriend Mike Traceur to help uncover who is behind the attempt to procure KITT and locate Charles.

Mike reunites with a former Army buddy to bring down a drag racing gang that is smuggling weapons overseas. Sarah joins Mike and KITT on this dangerous undercover mission, much to her father's dismay.