2004, "Hip-Hop", The Irish Times, 10 December 2004:
MTV viewers will know Xzibit as the man to call if you want to turn your banger into a blingmobile, but the Pimp My Ride host also has a useful career as a rapper.
If the MTV show Pimp My Ride, where run-of-the-mill motors are transformed into blingmobiles, were to turn its attention to heavily-armed robots, the results would look something like this.
2009, Paul Bacon, Bad Cop: New York's Least Likely Police Officer Tells All, Bloomsbury USA (2009), →ISBN, pages 81-82:
A silver sedan with tinted windows drove by me, then slowed down for no apparent reason. Its shiny rims kept spinning even as the wheels came to a stop. Custom-made rims were common where I'd grown up in California, but in New York City they were gangster accessories. […] I tried to jog away from the blingmobile.
The kind you'd use to commit a crime because there were eighty-five million cars just like it on the road. At least it was better than a cop car or a pimped-out blingmobile.
At the top end of the spectrum, Lenny Kravitz, Will Smith, Robbie Williams and Jay Kay are spearheading the trend for super-modern dream machines, or "blingmobiles", which can cost up to 500,000.
Once regarded as a peculiar form of nomadic transport for the over-60s, motorhomes the new 'rock and roll' for the latest generation of adventurers. High-profile owners include Lenny Kravitz, Will Smith, Jay Kay, Robbie Williams and Gail Porter, whose lavish 'blingmobiles' cost up to pounds 500,000.
