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Very good shows; liked how they updated the cars to today!
I am already onto the 12th show of Pimp My Ride and MTV's show is very good. Xzibit is a strong host for the show. He must watch a lot of TV, since he compares the formerly busted up cars to some characters on some shows. The young drivers are well deserving despite their difficulties with their transportation. Most of these cars would be sitting in the junkyards by now, but the West Coast Customs people do a superb job updating the cars, giving them clean looks without being too showy or flashy. The body work is jaw dropping, the interiors are fabulous, the tires are neat and they did the cars to match the drivers' favorite hobbies. Plus they put some sharp state-of-the-art electronics and sound systems in the cars, as well as Playstations, small TVs, computers and video games in some. (But that's when they're off the road--they should focus on DRIVING first, please!) This is a better alternative to the overdone home improvement, cleaning-up-some-nasty-rooms trend going on now, ala Trading Spaces and Extreme Makeover Home Edition. But here's the hard part--can these drivers keep their rides and whips up? What about one year. 5 or 10 years from now? They need to keep them neat and clean while they're hot for the moment. The girl with the grandmother had me laughing, but she was charming. The funniest was Neil and that silly Luv Bug which wouldn't get on any auto trade show today! I loved how they updated that Cadillac. The girl with the Mustang had some beautiful gold colored seats! And Ezra's Nissan took it out of its former soccer mom, lost identity mode. Most moving, the girl who overcame a drug problem and is sober now, yet now has a pimped out, cleaned up car. The message here on this show is, let a body shop or custom shop update your run down or outdated car or truck. Don't try to fix it yourself, as some of these people attempted to do. What's surprising are that the shows are 19 to 20(!) minutes. And we had to endure through 5 minutes of commercials or so that MTV likes to do. In a time when MTV is showing lesser videos than in the '80s, this is one of their better shows, the best since 1998's FANatic. Liked the funky hip-hop theme song and the filming and graphics are very good. To Xzibit, one of my favorite rappers and to West Coast Customs, thanks for pimping these people's rides!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Not Worthy
This deserves DVD treatment? First of all, I object to the term "pimp" being used as a verb. It's just not right. Some of what they do with the cars is amazing...but I wonder why they don't just get better cars to work with. If you rebuild an old piece of junk, you could get problems down the road. For all it must cost to redo the cars, they may as well just buy new ones (I suspect they do anyway, as some of the "improvements" are too hard to believe). <
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>I miss the days when MTV played music videos.

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Great the first two times
The show is basically always the same. Oh wait, thats the point. How do we know some kid doesnt go to a junkyard, buy a $100 piece of crap, makes a video, and get it remade on this show? Xzbit is just anther rapper who doesnt make it in the buisness, thanks to it being over crowded with lesser talent. Its kind of stupid to think, the car just sitting alone in the drive way, a camera crew on a street that is not busy, surrounded by houses, no one around, as Xzbit looks at your car. Where is the person? standing in there house? The show is preplanned, and the reactions are just faked abit. I know im over doing this, but if you had your car pimped like they do- think of how much it would cost to insure the car. The payment would sky rocket, and people who have it redone are poor it seems.