Tex Mex Motors

I've watched other very obviously fake car shows on Netflix, but none so obviously fake as this. It's a shame as the show doesn't need the silly dramatisations.

People watched pimp my ride to see the car transform (as ridiculous and often dangerous and pointless as those transformations were). I don't know why these shows can't do the same format as pimp my ride but with the actual talent that these people obviously have.

The transformations look great, and though I know nothing about cars the general consensus seems to be that these guys actually know what they're doing. Such a shame they aren't just showcasing that talent in a real way without the bad acting and dumb setups.

And nowhere near enough of the mechanical renovation and bodywork detail. It's a complete rehash of Fast n' Loud which went off the rails for exactly the same reason with the big loud mouthed front man. Unsurprisingly, Mike ( the paint guy ) is in this as well. The "Rabbit" dude is one seriously annoying individual and you can see why the morons lap up his nonsense on YouTube. All the "padding" in the show detracts from what is is supposed to be about, car restoration ! Made it through three episodes until I expired through boredom. Which is a shame, because there are some good car people in this, who are completely overshadowed by the talking heads.

I was enjoying this show, but something didn't seem right. Then the fourth episode they kept calling a white Z28 camaro an "IROC". Not all Z28s were given the label IROC. At the end when you see the before/after shots, pay attention to the rear bumper where the Z28 and IROC symbols are. Those symbols are not interchangeable witjout changing the bumper. Either they replaced the hood, front and rear bumpers with Z28 parts, or it is a different car. And as someone who has had a few IROCs, I put my money on the ending car being a different car. I'm not saying they couldn't have changes the parts, but if that's the case, he kept calling it an IROC BEFORE the parts swap when it wasn't one.

Most of the stuff you see on screen is not authentic, mosf ot the cars they say they buy in Juarez are not actually bought from the people on screen nor they are in Juarez when they are filming.

The whole "being pulled over" by the "Federales" is super staged and scripted, the agents aren't even Mexican and Federales do not use those models of trucks nor they take your papers and come back... they will either take them and not come back or something else will happen but trust me they will not be chicano spanglish speaking agents... not authentic.. at all.

Like I mentioned before, the locations are not Juarez, Mexico other than a few shots on the street or the actual bridge. This could have been a great show but they just scripted it all the way ...

At episode one they have to put rocks to stop the wheels from rolling when they sell it to the estate agent. What ???? A new refurbished car that the handbrake doesn't work!!! Nice work. Plus at the close ups you can see that the paint job is white and someone left as a mark red fingerprints on it. In short very poor job. I imagine that the buyer isn't real and it's all part of the show. Otherwise I don't see the reason to buy that car for 30.000 dollars. And when we talk about staging how come the cops stop them in Mexico and the film crew suddenly from close ups end up a mile away, not mentioning the cop who is full of tattoos.