Bah, it wasn't all bad... good special effects, good action.
However I think they went straight to the mysterious unknown past thing too fast. They are really trying to get people interested in his past too fast. And the whole love thing is too fast as well. Episode 1 and already there's a love interest between the two.
Too much, too fast.
As for this being the "new" Knight Rider, have you all already forgotten about
Team Knight Rider where they had 5 different talking vehicles? It was so bad that it didn't last long.
Now that was cheese.