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Anyone else ever watched this ? If not, it's like a makeover show for cars. They take someone's battered old banger and turn it into basically a drug dealers car with 18" chrome alloys, jazzy paint job and half a dozen lcd screens. Then for good measure they usually stick an impossibly loud stereo in it !!!
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i've watched some of the American ones, and they're quite entertaining. How long some of the cars last given where the kids come from is another thing.
Must watch the UK one, despite Westwood.
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I watched the UK version last night, "cringeworthy" is the best thing I can say about Westwood ! Last night's program had some kid with a 1987 ( i think ) VW Golf, loads of holes in it, doors didn't open or shut properly and strangely full of soil !
They filled the thing with red leather, the usual 18" chrome alloys, ridiculous stereo and to finish it off they sprayed it black but with a red sparkle finish. The paint job was frankly astonishing. Oh yeah and they put some Lamborghini style doors on it ! Mad !
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Alternatively, they could have given her the 10 grand plus that would have cost to buy a new car!
I've watched the American ones but stopped after they turned a TransAm into the most hideous thing I've ever seen. It even had a chandalier.
I know I know.
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Top Gear did this to some Chavmobile a while back. They tuned the engine and modified the suspension of some model of Lada, among other things, and spent over £20,000 of the licence payers money on it! It turned up on e bay a few months later and it didn't make much. What a criminal waste of licence payers money.
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That was bad if not a little interesting.
At least MTV get their money from people ringing up requesting songs, merchndise, and a wedge of your Sky subscription fee.
I'm all for individuality but how slow will that Golf be now?
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I remember hearing the guys on Virgin radio in the morning talking about the UK version.
One suggestion they had was to have Brian Blessed hosting it... you can imagine him saying 'Pimp My Ride' in his brilliantly unique voice.
"Let's put a Hawkman on the roof!"
"Flash ahhhhhh"
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ROFL.
Dale:"Flash! Flash! I love you, but we only have 14 hours to turn this cringeworthy pile of automotive pap into the daddy of all cruzemobiles."
Voltan"Bring forth the Hawkmen and have them source me a set of 22" chrome wheels and a woofer that will challenge Ming's Death Ray for Ampage requirements! And dispatch war rocket ajax to recover the seats"
Anyone seen my coat?
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Not watched the UK version but seen the american one several times, its OK to watch some of the ideas are a bit mad though. In the last show I saw they fitted a digital camera & printer in the car so the girl could take photos of her friends and print them off right in the car.
Wonder how many of them inform their insurance companies of the vast amounts of mods done to their vehicles?
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A show of pure escapism and we wonder about whether the insurers have been informed.
Only in the UK would you see a comment like that.
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I love the American version, top feel-good TV
I like old Tim Westlife too. If you don?t know him, just imagine a schoolboy doing an impression of Richard Madeley doing an impression of Ali G.
But the rest of the UK team are just about the uneasiest, most nervous group of people ever assembled before a camera. The "leader" with the wind-swept hair... what?s going on there? And Tim often struggles to get a reaction out of the recipients. It?s all a pale immitation made ultra-cringeworthy because there are never any black faces amongst all that rap-speak and wrist popping. "Man that is sick man"
But, did anyone see Bez having his taxi pimped? Fantastic.
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I like old Tim Westlife too. If you don?t know him, just imagine a schoolboy doing an impression of Richard Madeley doing an impression of Ali G.
Succinct and accurate. I think that he knows his onions on the music, but he's well entertaining (to laugh AT).
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Yeah he?s good value for money, and he?s really quite likeable. I seem to remember that he?s got a couple of pimped up Cadillac Escalades of his own too. The really massive 4x4s. Although I might be confusing him with another DJ...
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IIRC, he also has a bulletproof pimped ride. Probably the only DJ who does need one after his incident a couple of years ago...
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If you're into that sort of thing can always come down to Weston this weekend.
www.westonwheels.co.uk/
Can be hysterical seeing what some people do to their cars (No, I don't go- is held near my house).
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Tim Westwood has completely ruined the UK version. Is the man serious or what? He has none of the sense of humour nor charisma of Xzibit (X to the Z!) on the US version.
He's the son of vicar and he's 48 years old!
Pension my Ride more like.
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Funny how people see things differently...I thought the chandalier was inspired, well suited to the driver. Even thinking of getting one for Mrs Citroënian's C4.
Westwood is almost unbelievably cringeworthy - makes Ali G look like Xzibit, if you see what I mean. Word.
-- Lee .. A festivus for the rest of us.
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They never ever ever ever make any references to engine or oily bits on Pimp My Ride. I wonder what happens under the hood. You never see it, they never mention it. Does the engine get a make-over?
And they work fast too. It takes them one half-hour episode (not literally but you know what I mean) to pimp each car whereas on American Hotrod, Boyd Coddington and his crew always struggle to make an 8-week deadline
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They never ever ever ever make any references to engine or oily bits on Pimp My Ride. I wonder what happens under the hood. You never see it, they never mention it. Does the engine get a make-over?
I suspect it's ignored.
AFAIK they butchered a Morris 1000, soundproofed the engine bay as the old "A" series was a bit noisier than usual, and it expired on the way up the M40.
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