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MTV Is Hoping to Recreate Mid-2000s Nostalgia by Relaunching the Pimp My Ride Series
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MTV Is Hoping to Recreate Mid-2000s Nostalgia by Relaunching the Pimp My Ride Series

by  Sean Parker 2 min read
  • MTV and online classifieds eBay are relaunching the popular 2000s car modification show Pimp My Ride
  • The show will be hosted by British rapper, Lady Leshurr, and the first season has six episodes that premiere on MTV UK’s YouTube channel on Friday 19th August
  • The original show found quick success in the mid-2000s hosted by US rapper Xzibit and lasted for six seasons

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Pimp My Ride returns in 2022 with a new host and a platform, but still produced by MTV.

Lady Leshurr sitting on a car
British rapper, Lady Leshurr, will host the latest installment of Pimp My Ride, set to be broadcast on MTV's Youtube channel. Image: Newspress
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The UK version of the music channel installed, Lady Leshurr, to host the first half a dozen episodes, Newspress reports.

One of the world's largest online classified sites, eBay, has partnered with the online show, eBay reports.

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The show gained huge popularity for producing awesome medications for run-down cars of everyday people who applied to be on the show. It was originally hosted by US rapper, Xzibit, and lasted six seasons.

It was one of the network's most popular shows and launched the rapper to a global audience.

In 2022, the show will migrate from television to the world's largest online video platform, YouTube, from Friday 19th August, Wrench Studios will handle the modifying of the vehicles.

The company is based in Surrey and owned by two brothers, with cars such as Volkswagen Beetle and Japanese-spec Mitsubishi GTO will be among the cars featured in the first six episodes.

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Briefly News reports that a young man has the skill to be on shows such as Pimp My Ride.

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Oefentse Mphatsoe is the young designer behind the project which features parts from a dirt bin and ordinary items found around the house.

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Sean Parker Sean Parker is a motoring journalist with over 10 years' experience, who started out in the industry as the SA Guild of Motoring Journalists' Bursar student. Since then, the Cape Town-born editor has gone on to launch a national newspaper called Gears and Gadgets and worked for the country's premier online and print motoring publications before joining Briefly News to head up its Car & Tech section. He enjoys watching live sport and can't wait for F1 to make its debut in Mzansi.

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