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Feb 25, 2015 · 'Pimp My Ride' Was Way More Fake Than You Thought. By Todd Van Luling. Feb 25, 2015, 10:51 AM EST. "Pimp My Ride" premiered on MTV in 2004 with a straightforward premise that was beautiful in its simplicity: Take a kid with a beat up car and have the rapper Xzibit orchestrate a massive and ridiculous upgrade.
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Jul 1, 2023 · A 2015 report from The Huffington Post interviewed three participants who allowed their cars to be modified for "Pimp my Ride," and they revealed that modifications seen on television...
- 20 Faked It: Pimp My Ride Auditions
- 19 Faked It: The Sob Stories of Pimp My Ride
- 18 Faked It: The Contestants’ Homes
- 17 Faked It: The Fixed Rides
- 16 Faked It: The Beater Cars
- 15 Faked It: The Tears
- 14 Faked It: The Contestants’ Say
- 13 Faked It: The Joy on The Reveal
- 12 Faked It: Many Silly Gadgets
- 11 Faked It: The Time Frame
A couple of years back, Huffington Post did a whole exposé on the so-called reality show. According to their article, many contestants admitted to having gotten accepted simply because a friend of theirs worked for the show and getting that onto the show wasn’t a surprise for them. In fact, many had already been briefed by the producers and given a...
Televised entertainment, be it movies, shows, or reality, work by increasing ratings by milking the audience’s emotions for all its worth. In that, reality shows are probably only half real, despite all they may try to portray—and Pimp My Ridewas no different. If the car that rolled in to be “fixed” had one flat tire, the producers probably made it...
Ever wondered how the contestants' homes looked oh-so-convenient for the filming, to the point of them looking contrived? Well, according to News 24, it’s because they were contrived, meaning that most of the houses where Xzibit rang the doorbell to surprise the contestants were, in fact, rented for the shoot—and were not the actual homes of the co...
According to Looper, fixing the broken engine of a car isn’t half as glamorous as putting a jacuzzi in the pickup bed—or so thought the show’s producers. So more often than not, the cars were cosmetically fixed but without actually making them roadworthy. The producers and the fixer-uppers (West Coast Customs, to start with) would often glamorize t...
Obviously, when the sob stories were all edited for perfect impact, the cars that rolled in for a makeover had to look the part as well. So sometimes, the junker was junked further. And it wasn't like the producers went at it with bats and batons; nothing so serious. But the cars were dinged and dented, covered with dust, and made to look dirty, as...
Honestly, sometimes, the show was a real tear-jerker; but for the contestants, not the audience. Every contestant seemed to be leaking a bit during the show and most were often shown a tad teary-eyed while narrating their sob story. Others turned teary with joy when the final reveal of their ride happened. But as is with any reality show, these emo...
The very idea of this show wasn’t to actually fix cars and make them more roadworthy than before. It was to be as over the top and grand as possible, to make people starry-eyed over what cars could be; oftentimes that was, frankly, impossible. So the contestant may have rolled in with a specific request about how they wanted their dream ride to loo...
According to Huffington Post, one contestant specifically asked for no red interiors but at the reveal, the interiors were redder than cherries because the producers wanted it so. This same contestant spoke on Reddit about how they wanted to rip out those red leather seats with their bare hands when they saw them. But the show demanded they look ov...
Many of the contestants who came out on a Reddit thread were clear about one fact: many of the zany gadgets and upgrades the show got put on cars were faulty to the extreme. According to Daily Edge, Seth Martino’s car got a “robotic arm” which was supposed to be controlled from within the car. In reality, it was controlled by a series of commands i...
On the show, each pimping job seemed to happen in a matter of minutes, with the time frame looking like a week or two, at most. But in reality, when a contestant got his car for pimping, he could basically kiss it goodbye for a while. The show was edited cleverly to show that the upgrades happened super quickly but basically, when you hand your car...
Feb 26, 2015 · Huffington Post spoke with multiple contestants from Pimp My Ride about their experiences, and they revealed the show often made their cars unable to function, took away additions after...
Feb 26, 2015 · Excuse us if we’re bursting your bubble here, but it turns out that MTV’s beloved fixer-upper car show Pimp My Ride was total bullshit. The Huffington Post interviewed a few of the show’s...
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Feb 26, 2015 · The Huffington Post spoke with three of the show's former pimpees about their experiences during and after filming. It also spoke with Larry Hochberg, the show's co-executive producer, for some...
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Feb 26, 2015 · The Huffington Post interviewed several Pimp My Ride contestants and outed the show as complete bullshit. Engines were neglected, cars became even less drivable, accessories were removed...
