19
Jul
2007
Pimp My Ride: MTV Series Runs Out of Gas
MTV has announced that it is canceling its auto fix-up series Pimp My Ride after three years and seven seasons.
Hosted by rapper Xzibit, Ride picks car owners under the age of 30 for much needed car makeovers. By the end of an episode, a participants’ vehicle is “pimped out” to reflect the owner’s personal interests and tastes. Versions of the series air around the world including the UK, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and Brazil.
The final eight episodes of the US version aired in a marathon on June 9th but the series’ regular run begins on Sunday, July 22nd at 10:30pm on MTV. Pimp My Ride will be preceded by new car makeover series Trick It Out, hosted by former American Idol contestant Becky O’Donohue. Stay tuned! 
October 9th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
A new series on of all networks - Discovery, has picked up Pimp My Ride and has expanded it to 1 hour! It is now called Street Customs. There is no host, it’s in hi def too! Looks like West Coast Customs is in a new shop in a nicer location. Seems to be a bit more straight forward with less goofing off, and more time devoted to the various stages of the vehicle upgrades.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:23 am
IAM A GRANDMOTHER OF SIX. I HAVE A1998 OLDS CUTLASS I NEED MY CAR PIMP PLEASE PIMP MY CAR
April 13th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Mick is currently in Balhaf Yemen watching the showes
April 13th, 2008 at 7:02 am
West Coast customs are magic. Just amazing what they can do. I would love to have my old Jeep pimped….Will miss the show and their Ideas witch turn junk into art. Awsom
August 16th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
I am the ranch manager at Horsepitality Western Ranch, in Tucson, AZ. We are a non-profit horse rescue. We take in abused, and neglected horses and rehabilitate them through proper diet, training, desencitization and a lot of patience and love, then we find new loving homes for them. We have a 7 horse stock trailer that we use to pick up and deliver our horses and we also use it to supliment the funds for feed, vet check etc. by offering it to others in the community. Itr is a great trailer (sturdy)
but it is spotted with rust and has original white paint from the 80s. We would love to have it tricked out like grafetti ( horses, kids, cowboys, military war heros, as owner is retired army, and just a lot of american pride. How does anyone become a contestant? It would be for a great cause and would help bring attention to our rescue.
DC
August 8th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
I liked Pimp My Ride and I am sorry to see it end its run on MTV. It was good to see beat up, banged up cars get new, fresh updates. The newer cars were cleaner and sharper! I really think that the show’s true demise was when they switched from West Coast Customs to GAS to fix the cars. West Coast Customs did the best jobs on the first season’s cars! I think that the people at West Coast might have been little overwhelmed at the floods of responses and offers from viewers around the country who wanted their cars pimped up or updated. Some of them didn’t want to be in front of the camera, giving some strange looks. So they walked away and let GAS do it. Will some of these young people still drive these cars 5 to 10 years from now? When they might get married, have 2 or 3 kids and switch to minivans or crossover SUVs to show their mature sides? It’s going to be quite a transition for all of them. Or maybe they’ll keep them!
The car people did a good job updating the cars to reflect the owner’s favorite hobbies and personal tastes. And Xzibit was a good host,mixing humor and his knowledge of cars and how they should look.
July 24th, 2007 at 4:06 am
Can you please come and pimp my ride in South-Africa.
it’s a CTI 1996 golf car, and I really dont know what to do any more. I need YOUR help Pimpers.
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