Copy of Knight Rider's Talking Car Sold at Hasselhoff Auction

David Hasselhoff poses with a replica of himself built for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, during an auction in Beverly Hills, California. (Reuters)
David Hasselhoff poses with a replica of himself built for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, during an auction in Beverly Hills, California. (Reuters)
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Copy of Knight Rider's Talking Car Sold at Hasselhoff Auction

David Hasselhoff poses with a replica of himself built for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, during an auction in Beverly Hills, California. (Reuters)
David Hasselhoff poses with a replica of himself built for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, during an auction in Beverly Hills, California. (Reuters)

A copy of KITT, the talking car from the Knight Rider series and dozens of other memorabilia were sold at David Hasselhoff's auction on Saturday.

The car attracted about 30 bids at an online auction and finally sold for $300,000, according to the auction's website.

The identity of the buyer has not yet been disclosed.

The auctioneer said the fully functional car, which was parked in Britain waiting for a new owner, belonged to Hasselhoff but was not used in the series.

Pieces of clothing and other belongings of Hasselhoff from Baywatch were also among the auctioned memorabilia, most of them sold for several hundreds of dollars.

The dinner offer with the star fetched only $9,000, much less than the expected price of $20,000.

Hasselhoff's fame peaked in the 1980s and 1990s when he starred as a singer in hit TV shows, and was mostly known for his song "Looking for Freedom".

The career of the 68-year-old German actor and singer has faded in the past years.

Hasselhoff promoted "The Hoff" auction on Twitter and Instagram for several weeks. In a video he shared Saturday, he claimed he will allocate a big sum of the auction's revenues for charities.



Tim Cook and Rebecca Ferguson Announce New 'Silo' Seasons from the Show's Set

CEO of Apple Tim Cook gives a presentation as Apple holds an event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, U.S. September 9, 2024. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo/ File Photo
CEO of Apple Tim Cook gives a presentation as Apple holds an event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, U.S. September 9, 2024. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo/ File Photo
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Tim Cook and Rebecca Ferguson Announce New 'Silo' Seasons from the Show's Set

CEO of Apple Tim Cook gives a presentation as Apple holds an event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, U.S. September 9, 2024. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo/ File Photo
CEO of Apple Tim Cook gives a presentation as Apple holds an event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, U.S. September 9, 2024. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo/ File Photo

Sci-fi series "Silo" will return for two more seasons, with the third chapter already shooting in the UK.

Apple CEO Tim Cook joined the series' star and executive producer Rebecca Ferguson on the sprawling "Silo" set at Hoddesdon Studios outside London to make the announcement.

"We feel great about it. We could not be more pleased. We're already filming season three," Cook told Reuters in an interview in the show's Silo 18 cafeteria, Reuters reported

"We get to walk around these environments again under new circumstances, new threats," added Ferguson. "We're back on the show and it's tense, it's wonderful and it's mysterious."

The dystopian drama is based on American author Hugh Howey's "Silo" book trilogy and is set deep underground, where the last remaining people have been sheltering for hundreds of years from what they are told is a toxic environment on the surface of the Earth.

Ferguson plays engineer Juliette, whose suspicions are aroused when she seeks answers to a loved one's death, and she becomes determined to expose the secrets of the silo. Season one ended with Juliette stepping outside of Silo 18 and the second season, currently streaming on Apple TV+, sees her world upended.

The fourth season will conclude the series, the makers said.

Five years on from the launch of Apple TV+ in November 2019, Cook said he considered the service to be "successful by any measure".

"Like the rest of Apple, we're about being the best, not producing the most," said Cook.

"We're focusing on the best quality, with the best storytellers, all original. We think 'Silo' is a fantastic example of that and of course the UK is a great place for storytellers and it's a place where people want to work, and so we're doing a lot in the UK," he said.

New episodes of the 10-part "Silo" season two are released weekly, with the show's finale premiering Jan. 17.