Pimp My Ride of MTV is called fake by the winners as it only appears "pimped on television" but in reality, it hardly works and could even "burst into flames" according to the contestants during an interview with the Huffing Post.
Based on the Hollywood Reporter's post, multiple contestants have been asked by Huffing Post regarding their experiences on Pimp My Ride and have revealed that the MTV show turned their cars to malfunctioning while taking away "additions" after the camera roll stops and made them to express fake reactions.
Justin Dearinger, a Pimp My Ride contestant, said that the additions were only made for the sake of filming and have been removed before owners drive home. "They took the drive-in theater and Champagne contraptions out of my car. A rep for the show said a lot of removals were done for safety reasons," he added.
MTV's Pimp My Ride premiered in year 2004 with a clear-cut principle of "taking a kid with a beat up car and have the rapper Xzibit orchestrate a massive and ridiculous upgrade". The show's theme song explains it with few lines, "So you wanna be a player, but your wheels ain't fly. You gotta hit us up, to get a pimp't out ride."
The show operates within a minimum framework but things are a little complicated "behind the scenes". Cars break down within weeks with fat-shaming issues of a contestant by an employee from MTV network who tries to convince a car owner to "break up with his girlfriend". The contestants also mentioned their complaint regarding the mechanical performance of their cars.
Mostly, it required lots of work in order to make the cars function better which Pimp My Ride didn't do. Car owners ended up paying replacement fees for the engine.
