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Pimp My Ride
Original at tiscali.co.uk
• Wed, Jun 10
The MTV show comes to a console near you. Will Xzibit be able to help you through the pimping process? www.tiscali.co.uk
Game review: Pimp My Ride: Street Racing (DS)
Original at Coventry Telegraph
• Fri, May 29
UK You name it you can buy it. Paint jobs, rims and grills. You can customize your car anyway you want. And when your car's looking like Snoop Dog and Mr.T have just built it, you can burn some rubber around Pimp City. The race tracks around the city are ...
motormart autojumble Roundup
Original at Classic Rallies
• Tue, May 26
Spain The Ford Anglia 105E Owners Club put on a fine display of Anglias, including the unique 1959 'Pimp My Car' Anglia, pimped by mtvs Pimp My Ride programme with a 1950s style diner in the boot, complete with juke box and hot dog and smoothie makers. ...
LEGO Cars Will Make You Feel Like a Kid Again.
Original at PriceWheels.com
• Tue, May 26
FL The best is Firas' mock episode of Pimp My Ride. He builds a hoopty, inserts his own version of Xzibit's stock dialogue, then recreates every facet of a typical Pimp My Ride build, with LEGOS. The Pimp My Ride Silverado is complete down to the TV ...
Pimp My Ride: The Well Known MTV Show takes to the PSP
Original at PSP
• Mon, May 25
UK When all you can think of is transforming your car or probably every other car around into a pimped out piece of art than you should maybe first try your hand at the Pimp My Ride game. Based on the immensely successful MTV show of the same name this ...
Game Review: Pimp My Ride: Street Racing - DS
Original at Epsom Guardian
• Thu, May 21
UK With the money you earn you are given the option to upgrade your car (or purchase a completely new one). The upgrades available to you include new wheels, rims, paint jobs, engine upgrades and bizarrely enough, sirens and bull horns. ...
Game Review: Pimp My Ride: Street Racing - DS
Original at News Shopper
• Thu, May 21
UK By Colin Miller » When I was asked to review Pimp My Ride: Street Racing, I wasn't too sure what to expect from the title. To the best of my knowledge, Pimp My Ride is a TV show which features Tim Westwood (or Xzibit, depending on its location) and a ...
Driving challenge at county show in Exeter
Original at Mid Devon Star
• Sun, May 17
UK There will also be a chance to get a preview glimpse of a customised VW Transporter truck which has undergone a “Pimp My Ride” transformation to be converted from an ordinary white van into an educational vehicle. The truck is aimed at younger drivers ...
Extremely Confident Man Builds Extremely Tiny Car
Original at Gizmodo.com
• Sat, May 16
Car modder Perry Watkins took the frame of the "Postman Pat" children's ride and mounted it on a quad mini-bike, using its 150cc engine. The car features a windshield wiper, lights and signals, mirrors, and even a Pimp My Ride-worthy paint job and fake ...
FACTBOX-The automobile entangled in American culture
Original at Forbes
• Mon, Apr 20
NY There is even a whole genre romanticizing car crashes, as 'Last Kiss' and 'Dead Man's Curve' illustrate. * 'Pimp My Ride,' a reality show airing on MTV, took cars in the worst condition and restored and customized them. 'Fast and Furious' -- the fourth ...
FACTBOX-The automobile entangled in American culture
Original at Reuters
• Mon, Apr 20
There is even a whole genre romanticizing car crashes, as "Last Kiss" and "Dead Man's Curve" illustrate. * "Pimp My Ride," a reality show airing on MTV, took cars in the worst condition and restored and customized them. "Fast and Furious" -- the fourth ...
Cumnor cyclists get their bikes 'pimped'
Original at Oxford Mail
• Mon, Apr 20
UK THEY may not have had rapper Xzibit or hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood, but youngsters from Dean Court, in Cumnor, got into the spirit of MTV show Pimp My Ride for a two-day event to transform their bicycles. The hit television show, presented in America by ...
Xzibit Needs Someone To ‘Pimp His Taxes!' $500K IRS Debt Exposed?
Original at HipHopRX
• Fri, Apr 17
Rapper Xzibit, who's known for hosting MTV's Pimp My Ride, is reportedly in serious debt with the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) and needs someone to ‘pimp his taxes!' Reportedly, the rapper/television personality and actor, born Alvin Joiner, 34, ...
Pimp My Ride Ep.505: Spechelle's '81 MercedesOriginal at bebo.com
• Fri, Apr 10
• 4 related articles
An ordinary car becomes a Spechelle edition when Xzibit and the GAS team pimp the crunk queen's ride. www.bebo.com
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Darius Goes West: One boy’s story
Original at College
• Wed, Mar 11
IL He and 11 of his best friends originally set off in 2005 to trek across America on a road trip with the ultimate goal of a pimped out wheel chair courtesy of MTV’s “Pimp My Ride.” The crew’s summer long-adventure extended to places the Athens, Ga., ...
Xzibit: The Son Rises
Original at AllHipHop
• Tue, Mar 10
While reality TV nowadays is as ubiquitous as angry Republicans, when MTV debuted Pimp My Ride in 2004 with Xzibit serving as host, no one imagined the phenomenon a show that turned hoopties into fly whip autos would become. “What I was doing for most ...
Autoblog visits the Galpin Collection
Original at Autoblog
• Sun, Feb 15
CA - Feb 15, 2009 In addition to being the largest Ford dealer in the world, they host MTV's Pimp My Ride at Galpin Auto Sports and even have a dedicated showroom just for ...
The godfather of Pimp My Ride
Original at www2.canada.com
• Fri, Feb 13
Canada - Feb 13, 2009 Long before reality TV came up with Pimp My Ride there was one name who was synonymous with customizing cars and that was George Barris. ...
MTV DROPS 50 CENT SHOW
Original at New York Post
• Mon, Dec 29
NY - Run's "Run's House," Diddy's "Making the Band" and Xzibit's "Pimp My Ride" on MTV), it's surprising that the hip hop success, who survived nine gun shots in ...
Good news, bad news at MTV
Original at C21Media
• Mon, Dec 22
UK - Rustavi 2 will also broadcast MTV car makeover show, Pimp My Ride. Over in the Asia Pacific region, New Zealand’s main terrestrial broadcaster TVNZ has ...
Let the customizing begin! LA Auto Show visitors can digitally ...
Original at Autoblog
• Wed, Nov 19
CA - Members from Galpin Auto Sports, best known for Pimp My Ride, will install the customers' choice accessories on one V-6 convertible and one Mustang GT coupe ...
Kitchen Nightmares J Willy’s Just Got Fixed! | Reality TV Magazine
Original at Reality TV Magazine
• Thu, Oct 30
Phenomenon · Pimp My Ride · Pirate Master · Playmania · Poker After Dark · Poker Royale · Pop Fiction · Power Of 10 · Prime Time Love · Project Greenlight · Project Runway · Punk'd · Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious ...
Hadley Freeman: How might Tim Westwood explain this pimped riot van?
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Mon, Oct 27
By Hadley Freeman Weee-keeeeeeed! Yo - dis is Tim Westwood, coming atchoo live as a wire from da local copper station. Nah man, I ain't been done for nuffink. Dis is anuvva episode of Pimp My Ride, in which we pimp up a car TO THE MAX and dis week we have pimped up a copper riot van, innit.
It’s the Cart That’s Art, as Cold as Ice
Original at New York Times
• Wed, Oct 1
United States - He calls the project “Pimp My Piragua,” playing off the MTV reality series, “Pimp My Ride.” “But in this case it’s not a car, but sort of a modest pushcart ...
Your Next Computer May Be a Smartphone
Original at TechNewsWorld
• Mon, Sep 29
• 2 related articles
By Rob Enderle Last week was so ugly the economic conditions had me up on YouTube looking for things to put a smile on my face, and I found two -- one that has the "Pimp My Ride" folks pimping an IT shop with an Xbox -- not some marketing group's best moment -- and an HP ad spoof that has Steve Jobs selling HP compu...
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HP, AMD and Microsoft Do: Pimp My Infrastructure
Original at IT Business Edge
• Thu, Sep 25
KY - Sep 25, 2008 While I’m not sure Pimp My Ride has the following it did a couple of years ago, it is well known, and the idea of using it was a good one. ...
'Pimp my ride' in Pimlico
Original at London Informer
• Tue, Sep 23
UK - One of the projects is called Pimp My Ride, which will teach young people at Churchill Gardens Youth Club, in Lupus Street, Pimlico, car mechanic skills as ...
Movie review: The X Files
Original at TVNZ
• Tue, Jul 29
New Zealand - Jul 29, 2008 Pimp My Ride rapper Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner plays Peet's partner, a hierarchical stiff in a suit, sick of following a psychic through the snow and quite ready ...
Okay…Pimp My Ride. (this is fit friday…so here’s my new ride)
Original at MzEllen & Co.
• Thu, Jul 24
By Ellen From MTV… I got a “new” (to me) bike from Love INC (Love In the Name of Christ) for $35.oo and now… I got the new seat…the screw was loose on the kickstand and I need either a different kickstand (the screw won’t stay in) or just live ...
Third Annual Pimp My Bookcart Contest
Original at LISNews.org
• Thu, Jul 10
By birdie This just in: it's a parody of MTV's Pimp My Ride. But we realize that community standards vary. Feel free to use variants such as "Trick My Book Truck" or "Primp My Bookcart" (or anything else) for your local programs." ...
Chisholm in my Bosom
Original at zip06.theday.com
• Sun, Jun 29
CT - I have tinted windows, not Pimp My Ride tinted windows (how do the people who do that on that show see out those car windows at night? ...
National Review Online: Bright Atheists vs Dull Christians
Original at A Blogspotting Anglican Episcopalian
• Sun, Jun 15
By episcopalian It’s like they always get to be the cool “after” car on Pimp My Ride — and we atheists are almost always stuck being the dorky who’d-really-want-to-drive-this “before” one.” A full cup read: Mary Eberstadt on Loser Letters on National ...
About Those Totally Annoying Christian Convert Traitors
Original at National Review Online
• Fri, Jun 13
NY - It’s like they always get to be the cool “after” car on Pimp My Ride — and we atheists are almost always stuck being the dorky ...
How To: Pimp My Ride
Original at blinkx SmartFeed
• Tue, Feb 19
Here's where you describe why this video will be useful and what people will learn. Feel free to use some of these words when you do: Pimp My Ride, Playstation 2, Video Games & PC...
Pimp My Ride Last Episode
Original at MilkandCookies.com: Headlines
• Wed, Dec 26
• 6 related articles
Xzibit and the Crew pimp the ride of Saffir and give him more then he was expecting on the very last episode of MTV's Pimp My Ride.
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West Coast Customs announce du as telecommunications partner at ... - AME Info (press release)
Original at AME Info
• Wed, Nov 14
West Coast Customs announce du as telecommunications partner at ... press release), United Arab Emirates - Fans of the WCC team, who shot to fame on mtv's 'Pimp My Ride', will also be able to see their heroes at the first ever West Coast Customs Live Show ...
Craigslist Find: Pimped 1968 VW Bug, asking $40000
Original at Car Domain
• Tue, Sep 25
By CarDomain.Com owner of this 1968 VW Beetle that has been completely gutted and restored pimped by the guys at Pimp My Ride & Galpin Auto Sports. The Beetle sports an insane collection of sight and sound. Mad Mike and the GAS crew stuffed in a full ...
MTV goes car crazy: Trick it Out joins final season of Pimp My Ride
Original at Autoblog
• Wed, Aug 1
By Frank Filipponio It sounds worth a watch, especially if the teams figure out how to get to the judge. We're guessing this might be a knock-down, drag-out fight in the works. And for "Pimp" fans who might be feeling withdrawal symptoms, MTV says shows are now available at the iTunes Store, Amazon Unbox, and the...
'Mad Mike' pimps school bus - NorthJersey.com
Original at NorthJersey.com
• Sun, Jul 29
• 2 related articles
Mad Mike' pimps school bus NJ - Mike "Mad Mike" Martin, best known for turning beat-up old cars into flashy, eye-catching sedans on MTV's "Pimp My Ride," lent his expertise and charisma to ... Mad wheels for the marching band NorthJersey.com all 2 news articles
MTV show to pimp Pequannock ride
Original at Dailyrecord.com
• Sat, Jul 28
Pequannock High School's "band bus" will be getting a makeover with the help of Michael "Mad Mike" Martin of MTV's "Pimp My Ride.
Trick It Out And Pimp My Ride Air Tonight On MTV
Original at Reality TV Magazine
• Sat, Jul 21
By Joe Reality After turning a ’65 Chevy Impala into an 800 horsepower biodiesel clean machine and liquidated a Ford ice cream truck into a frozen asset, MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” will return for its final season on Sunday, July 22nd at 10:30PM ET/PT. Rap superstar and host Xzibit is joined by car customizati...
How To: Pimp My Ride Car Effects
Original at Tutorial Outpost Latest Photoshop Tutorials
• Sat, Jul 21
Learn how to make the Pimp My Ride Effects style for your car.
Gig review: Xzibit in Auckland - Stuff.co.nz
Original at stuff.co.nz
• Thu, Jun 21
Stuff.co.nzGig review: Xzibit in Auckland Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Jun 21, 2007 Reviewer Chris Schulz squeezed himself into The Studio to see Pimp My Ride host Xzibit perform a one-off New Zealand show. A sardine tin probably isn't the ...
Things you should learn how to do before you turn 18 - Tulsa World
Original at Tulsa World
• Fri, Jun 8
Things you should learn how to do before you turn 18 OK - Otherwise, you may end up with an excellent candidate for "Pimp My Ride.") You know how to jump that car, too, right? Know how to shine your shoes . ...
Nelly To Host Pimp My Ride In South Africa; New Pimp Juice Flavor - AllHipHop
Original at AllHipHop
• Mon, May 21
Nelly To Host Pimp My Ride In South Africa; New Pimp Juice Flavor - The deal led to Mojalife entering into a deal with UK-based Screen Ventures and MTV Networks to produce 52 episodes of Pimp My Ride, with Nelly planned as ...
MTV & Arnold pimp your Earth Day
Original at TVgasm
• Sat, Apr 21
Discovery may be marking Earth Day with a Planet Earth marathon, but MTV is really doing it up and changing the course of the environment tomorrow afternoon with a very special "Green" episode of Pimp My Ride. Gangsta rapper host Xzibit will team with California governor Arnold Schwarzen...
Schwarzenegger lets MTV 'pimp' his ride (AP)
Original at Yahoo! News
• Sat, Apr 21
AP - In the latest promotion of his environmental agenda, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to make an appearance Sunday on the popular MTV show "Pimp My Ride."
Pimp My Ride & Governor Schwarzenegger Team Up For Earth Day Special Episode
Original at Reality TV Magazine
• Fri, Apr 20
By Joe Reality Galpin Auto Sports, the garage of "Pimp My Ride," takes going green to an all-new level in this special episode. Their dedication to protecting our Earth dates back to 1979 when Galpin Motors began converting fleets of gasoline engine vehicles to run on methanol and even opened the nation...
SchwarzenWatcher Pimps His Ride
Original at SFist
• Wed, Apr 11
By Jon In the show, Schwarzenegger will get his 1965 Chevy Impala all fitted up with a biodiesel engine. Why, we've never watched the show, but we hear pimping out cars with biodiesel is all the rage these days, especially with the rappers. Supposedly, 50 Cent went biodiesel and is so into the envir...
How To: Pimp My Ride Tech-Loads a Celica Like a Newbie
Original at Gizmodo
• Thu, Oct 5
This is a cool conversation with the car-redevelopement. This show is tell you how to make a shit-car from a good-car,congratulation West Cost Custom! Frenksekeli