"Pimp My Ride" (2004) TV series 2004-????

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Creators:

Bruce Beresford-Redman
Rick Hurvitz

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | unknown

Release Date:

4 March 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Reality-TV

Plot:

Xzibit finds the owner of a ruined car and takes it to the West Coast Customs for a renovation.

Plot Keywords:

Special Interest | Motor | Car Restoration | Car Modification

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Mad Mike	...	Electronics / ... (25 episodes, 2004-2006)
Toy Holmes	...	Promo Announcer (16 episodes, 2006)
Xzibit	...	Himself - Host (11 episodes, 2004-2007)
Jason Ewing	...	Jason / ... (9 episodes, 2006)

Runtime:

USA:30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Certification:

Australia:M | Australia:PG (some episodes)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Music Television (MTV)

Trivia:

The show now takes place at GAS (Galpin Auto Sports) Garage instead of West Coast Customs with all new mechanics, although Mad Mike still stays on the show.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Top Gear: (2005-07-17)" (2005)

An MTV show, featuring the rapper Xzibit who fixes up cars of his fans.

The show "Pimp My Ride" is another line of those shows where a crew and some host try to fix up someone's car/house/life/etc.

Unfortunately, Pimp My Ride is so extravagant and excessive that it takes away any sort of meaning that the audience could pull away from it.

It always begins with the rapper, Xzibit, who mentions someone who needs their car fixed up and they are a too poor to do so themselves. The person always gravely needs a car that functions because they're devoted to some sort of job/education but haven't the resources/time to get a new car. We're shown the car, which is usually in awful shape, the owner of the car shows the various parts falling off, the duct-taped fender and the non-functioning radio, so on and so forth.

Xzibit drives away to the garage, where they proceed to pimp the ride. Now, this could be interesting, but we see almost no pimping. We see all the mechanics/"pimpers" meet up and discuss what they'll do to the car, then we see them strip down the car, then the car painted (in fast forward – of course) and tid bits of accessories being installed.

It'd be nice if they made the car better, made it nicer with some cool detail, but it goes overboard. TVs on the outside of the car near the wheels, a TV system for a habitat for snakes in the trunk, a working computer system in the back seat. It all seems like too much.

All you're left wondering is how this person could pay for any sort of repair if the car got into an accident, how often is it going to get broken into, and how much will this really help their financial situation?