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Constestants were contractually obligated to not sell their cars.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Some criticisms of the end result.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Some criticisms of the end result. Many features in the pimped cars were useless at best and illegal at worst, such as putting a mobile bar in one car's truck, and were removed as soon as the cameras stopped filming.
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* MoneyDearBoy:[[invoked]] A lot of people go to the trouble of going through the process of being selected for car pimping so that they can sell the final results on eBay.
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* MoneyDearBoy:[[invoked]] A lot of people go to ManipulativeEditing:
** The show presents thetrouble of going through the "pimping" process of being selected as only taking a few days or weeks when, in fact, it took 6-8 months for car pimping so contestants' cars to be returned to them.
** Many contestants have revealed that the show gave them fake backgrounds and quirks to make them look more interesting and rented houses that theycan sell thought would look better on television. They also revealed that they were often coached into having excited reactions to their remodeled cars, with the final results on eBay.show sometimes making them film reaction shots before they've even seen their pimped ride.
** Many of the pimped cars had their more eccentric features removed immediately after the cameras stopped rolling as many of them were not street legal. Some of these features weren't even part of the car and were controlled by offscreen technicians during filming.
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** Many contestants have revealed that the show gave them fake backgrounds and quirks to make them look more interesting and rented houses that they
** Many of the pimped cars had their more eccentric features removed immediately after the cameras stopped rolling as many of them were not street legal. Some of these features weren't even part of the car and were controlled by offscreen technicians during filming.
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** Could also be seen with some of the video game consoles they put into people's cars (more so in the show's early years, when UsefulNotes/TheSixthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames was still going strong). For example, when Nintendo had a sponsorship deal with MTV in 2004[[note]]which included things like specialized ads for ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'', and a series of commercials for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS that featured Steve-O and Chris Pontius of ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' and ''Series/{{Wildboyz}}'' fame[[/note]], the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube was the game system that most often got put into cars of people who said they enjoy playing video games. Similarly, if Sony happened to be sponsoring at some point in time, expect the game system to be a UsefulNotes/PlayStation2.
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** Could also be seen with some of the video game consoles they put into people's cars (more so in the show's early years, when UsefulNotes/TheSixthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames MediaNotes/TheSixthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames was still going strong). For example, when Nintendo had a sponsorship deal with MTV in 2004[[note]]which included things like specialized ads for ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'', and a series of commercials for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS Platform/NintendoDS that featured Steve-O and Chris Pontius of ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' and ''Series/{{Wildboyz}}'' fame[[/note]], the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube Platform/NintendoGameCube was the game system that most often got put into cars of people who said they enjoy playing video games. Similarly, if Sony happened to be sponsoring at some point in time, expect the game system to be a UsefulNotes/PlayStation2.Platform/PlayStation2.
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* GearheadShow: Rapper Music/{{Xzibit}} and the crew at GAS (earlier, West Coast Customs) take the most trashy, beat-down cars their viewers can show them, and convert them into luxury custom machines. Gets more outrageous with each episode, usually including video and audio equipment that quintuples (at ''least'') the value of the car.
* ''Series/PoliceCameraAction''
* ''Series/PoliceCameraAction''
