OK, it's a cheezy concept. 2 teams get 2 identical cars and have 72 hours to pimp them, the one with the most original design and thorough build wins. So it's sort of an extended version of Pimp My Ride. Heck, one of the judges is Mr. Mad Mike of the PMP-crew. The concept reminds me of all the approximately 1,5 million similar shows Discovery has had running for the last 10 years.
Even though Disco might call this a "car" show, it's just a kinky reality. Probably 1/5th of an episode's running time is about actual car modification. The rest is all about different members from each crew ranting, complaining and causing trouble, waking each other up etc. And that's the main issue for me, the cutting and editing of this show. It's starts with some host telling them they're not allow to puppy-guard parts (they share a parts storage from various sponsor makes) and have 72 hours. Then the teams draw up a design on a whiteboard and delegate assignments to a few of the members. That brings me onto something else. It appears that each crew consists of maybe 10-20 people. After 1 hour, I've seen maybe 3 or 4 of them actually do something. The rests have appeared in cameos in apparently busy situations explaining what's just gone wrong or is about to happen, or how little time they have left. Now, back to the editing. The only in-length shoot featuring the car which I saw was the paint job. The rest was just cuts of people running around getting parts from the parts depot (that both teams share). Suddenly, their time was up and both teams had a completed car. Wow, what I saw for the last hour was a bunch of Latino car "builders" get mad at each other for not being able to keep the door for the paint-booth shut and a car nearly falling off a ramp. This also really brings into question the 72-hour deadline they have.
To summarize, the show has no plot (except for that teams have 72 hours to finish a car, which is the same for every episode). The cuts and editing are abrupt and out-of-sync, and barely show any work done to the car in question, which makes you doubt the whole integrity of the limited-time format. An episode is based around a silly conflict involving a few crew members (such as dust in the paint booth) with another 5 which you've never seen before (or do any work, ever) explain how little they've slept and why the 4 others are having an argument. Then suddenly, a hidden hero within the team manages to finish the car, being commemorated by the rest of the team for being the "worlds best" in whatever his trade is (audio, paint, interior etc). The show is meaningless and stupid, it's an insult to proper customizers and car builders, and car people. It's a cheapskate reality with a fancy intro.
Even though Disco might call this a "car" show, it's just a kinky reality. Probably 1/5th of an episode's running time is about actual car modification. The rest is all about different members from each crew ranting, complaining and causing trouble, waking each other up etc. And that's the main issue for me, the cutting and editing of this show. It's starts with some host telling them they're not allow to puppy-guard parts (they share a parts storage from various sponsor makes) and have 72 hours. Then the teams draw up a design on a whiteboard and delegate assignments to a few of the members. That brings me onto something else. It appears that each crew consists of maybe 10-20 people. After 1 hour, I've seen maybe 3 or 4 of them actually do something. The rests have appeared in cameos in apparently busy situations explaining what's just gone wrong or is about to happen, or how little time they have left. Now, back to the editing. The only in-length shoot featuring the car which I saw was the paint job. The rest was just cuts of people running around getting parts from the parts depot (that both teams share). Suddenly, their time was up and both teams had a completed car. Wow, what I saw for the last hour was a bunch of Latino car "builders" get mad at each other for not being able to keep the door for the paint-booth shut and a car nearly falling off a ramp. This also really brings into question the 72-hour deadline they have.
To summarize, the show has no plot (except for that teams have 72 hours to finish a car, which is the same for every episode). The cuts and editing are abrupt and out-of-sync, and barely show any work done to the car in question, which makes you doubt the whole integrity of the limited-time format. An episode is based around a silly conflict involving a few crew members (such as dust in the paint booth) with another 5 which you've never seen before (or do any work, ever) explain how little they've slept and why the 4 others are having an argument. Then suddenly, a hidden hero within the team manages to finish the car, being commemorated by the rest of the team for being the "worlds best" in whatever his trade is (audio, paint, interior etc). The show is meaningless and stupid, it's an insult to proper customizers and car builders, and car people. It's a cheapskate reality with a fancy intro.