Pipe Frame

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Template:Kart-infobox The Pipe Frame (also known simply as the Go-Kart) is the original and early form of Kart that appears in Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, and Mario Kart: Super Circuit, and a customizable vehicle part in Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart 8. Throughout the various Mario Kart games it appears in, the Pipe Frame changes color depending on the character driving in it. In the first three installments of the Mario Kart series, the Pipe Frame acts as the one and only kart available. The abilities of the kart depend on the driver so the kart itself has no strong or weak points. After a 10-year absence, the Pipe Frame returns in Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart 8, as an unlockable kart body in both and generally gave a boost in acceleration and speed while decreasing the weight and traction

In all games it appears, the Pipe Frame resembles a micro kart, a type of recreational go-kart known for its small size, but powerful engines.

Mario Kart 7

The Pipe Frame appears in Mario Kart 7 as an unlockable kart body. It inherits the Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Super Circuit design with dual exhaust pipes, similar to the Standard Kart. In this game the kart offers a good boost in acceleration, drift, and off-road, but hinders top speed and weight. The Pipe Frame is one of the three kart parts to have a different color for each character. The original racers Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Bowser, Donkey Kong, Toad, and Wario retain the same colored kart from Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Super Circuit. It has a four-stroke engine with powerful-sounding exhausts

It is one of the lightest karts in this game, together with the Egg 1, Barrel Train, and the Bolt Buggy.

Color schemes

Character Color
Mario Red
Luigi Green
Peach Pink
Yoshi Lime green
Bowser Orange
Donkey Kong Yellow
Toad Blue
Koopa Light green-yellow
Daisy Yellow-orange
Wario Purple
Rosalina Turquoise
Metal Mario Blue-gray
Shy Guy Black
Honey Queen Fuchsia
Wiggler Brown
Lakitu Sky blue
Mii Color depends on Mii's color

Mario Kart 8

The Pipe Frame returns in Mario Kart 8, again as an unlockable kart body, and it's redesigned to look like the original Super Mario Kart design featuring a transversed engine block with a single exhaust pipe, rather than a longitudinal engine block with dual exhaust pipes used in Mario Kart 64, Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Mario Kart 7. It also contains a small circular plate on the front, which displays the current character's emblem.

Unlike past installments, the colors of the Pipe Frame are now shared with multiple characters, featuring 23 unique colors used among the 36 characters (and of those, thirteen of the colors are exclusive to one character, counting alternate colors for Yoshi and Shy Guy, but excluding Miis). The eight main characters from Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Super Circuit, retain the same color as they were in the original games, while Koopa Troopa retains its colored kart from Super Mario Kart.

In addition, all the Koopalings (except for Morton) have unique colored steering wheels for their karts, as opposed to the standard black for the secondary color. Also, all the Koopalings have unique colored exhaust pipes, as opposed to the standard yellow for the tertiary color, and their wheel hinges are uniquely colored, instead of being colored gray.

The Pipe Frame gives a good boost in acceleration, speed and handling, but hinders weight and traction. Its stats are identical to those of the Wild Wiggler, Standard Bike, Flame Rider, Varmint, W 25 Silver Arrow, and City Tripper. Unlike its predecessor, it is now has a two-stroke engine and its sound is shared with the Standard Kart, Teddy Buggy, Wild Wiggler, Biddybuggy and the Sneeker, only having a deeper sounding exhaust pipe.

Like the Standard Kart, Standard Bike, and Standard ATV, the Pipe Frame body is occasionally used by all the CPU-controlled characters. Most CPU players will always pair the Pipe Frame with the Standard tires, but a few may use the Monster tires instead.

Color schemes

Character(s) Color Image
Body Wheel Hinges Steering Wheel Engine and Exhaust
Mario's head icon in Mario Kart 8Baby Mario's head icon in Mario Kart 8File:YoshiRed-MK8.pngMii icon, from Mario Kart 8. (Red, Mario/Pikmin Suit) Red Gray Black Gold Pipe Frame body from Mario Kart 8
Luigi's head icon in Mario Kart 8Baby Luigi's head icon in Mario Kart 8File:ShyGuyGreen-MK8.pngMii icon, from Mario Kart 8. (Green, Luigi/Yoshi Suit) Green Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of a green Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Peach's head icon in Mario Kart 8Baby Peach's head icon in Mario Kart 8File:YoshiPink-MK8.pngFile:ShyGuyPink-MK8.pngToadette's head icon in Mario Kart 8Cat Peach's icon from Mario Kart 8Female Villager's icon.Mii icon, from Mario Kart 8. (Pink, Peach/Kirby Suit) Light pink Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of a pink Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Daisy's head icon in Mario Kart 8Baby Daisy's head icon in Mario Kart 8File:YoshiOrange-MK8.pngFile:ShyGuyOrange-MK8.pngTanooki Mario's icon from Mario Kart 8Mii icon, from Mario Kart 8. (Orange, Varia Suit) Yellow-orange Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of an orange Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Rosalina's head icon in Mario Kart 8Lakitu's head icon in Mario Kart 8Baby Rosalina's head icon in Mario Kart 8File:YoshiLightBlue-MK8.pngFile:ShyGuyLightBlue-MK8.pngMii icon, from Mario Kart 8. (Light-blue, Mega Man Suit, Rosalina Suit) Sky blue Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of a light-blue Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Metal Mario's head icon in Mario Kart 8 Metallic gray Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of Metal Mario's Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Yoshi's head icon in Mario Kart 8Isabelle's icon, from Mario Kart 8.Mii icon, from Mario Kart 8. (Light-green, Animal Crossing Suit) Light green-yellow Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of a light-green Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Koopa Troopa's head icon in Mario Kart 8Donkey Kong's head icon in Mario Kart 8File:YoshiYellow-MK8.pngFile:ShyGuyYellow-MK8.pngMii icon, from Mario Kart 8. (Yellow, PAC-MAN/Wario Suit) Yellow Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of a yellow Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Toad's head icon in Mario Kart 8File:YoshiBlue-MK8.pngFile:ShyGuyBlue-MK8.pngLink's icon from Mario Kart 8Mii icon, from Mario Kart 8. (Blue, Hylian/Captain Falcon/Fox/Toad/Sonic Suit) Blue Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of a blue Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
File:YoshiWhite-MK8.pngFile:ShyGuyWhite-MK8.pngMii icon, from Mario Kart 8. (White) White Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of a white Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Shy Guy's head icon in Mario Kart 8File:YoshiBlack-MK8.pngFile:ShyGuyBlack-MK8.pngDry Bowser's icon, from Mario Kart 8.Mii icon, from Mario Kart 8. (Black, Bowser Suit) Black Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of a black Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Mii icon, from Mario Kart 8. (Brown, DK Suit) Brown Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of a brown Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Pink Gold Peach's head icon in Mario Kart 8 Metallic pink Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of Pink Gold Peach's Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Bowser's head icon in Mario Kart 8Male Villager's icon. Orange Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of Bowser's Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Wario's head icon in Mario Kart 8Mii icon, from Mario Kart 8. (Purple) Purple Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of a purple Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Waluigi's head icon in Mario Kart 8 Dark purple Gray Black Gold Thumbnail of Waluigi's Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Iggy's head icon in Mario Kart 8 Lime green Blue-violet Blue-violet Violet-purple Thumbnail of Iggy's Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Roy's head icon in Mario Kart 8 Red-purple Light pink Light pink Violet Thumbnail of Roy's Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Lemmy's head icon in Mario Kart 8 Cyan Orange Orange Orange Thumbnail of Lemmy's Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Larry's head icon in Mario Kart 8 Yellow Sky blue Sky blue Sky blue Thumbnail of Larry's Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Wendy's head icon in Mario Kart 8 Pink Light purple Light purple Cyan Thumbnail of Wendy's Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Ludwig's head icon in Mario Kart 8 Dark blue Blue Blue Forest green Thumbnail of Ludwig's Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.
Morton's head icon in Mario Kart 8 Dark gray Forest green Black Dark gray Thumbnail of Morton's Pipe Frame (with 8 icon), in Mario Kart 8.

Stats

Stat values are out of 6.

Mario Kart 7

  • Speed: -0.25
  • Sea Speed: +1
  • Air Speed: +0.5
  • Acceleration: +0.25
  • Weight: -0.25
  • Handling: 0
  • Sea Handling: +0.25
  • Air Handling: +0.25
  • Off-Road: +0.25
  • Mini-Turbo: +0.5
  • Stability: 0
  • Drift: +0.25

Mario Kart 8

  • Ground Speed: 0
  • Water Speed: +0.25
  • Air Speed: +0.25
  • Anti-Gravity Speed: -0.25
  • Acceleration: +0.25
  • Weight: -0.25
  • Ground Handling: +0.5
  • Water Handling: +0.5
  • Air Handling: +0.5
  • Anti-Gravity Handling: +0.25
  • Traction: -0.5
  • Mini-Turbo: +0.25

Gallery

Artwork

Screenshots

Mario Kart 7

Mario Kart 8

Club Nintendo

"Die Jagd nach dem Nintendo 64: Krawall im All"

Mario and Luigi driving karts
Mario and Luigi driving karts in the Club Nintendo comic "Die Jagd nach dem Nintendo 64: Krawall im All".

In the Club Nintendo comic "Die Jagd nach dem Nintendo 64: Krawall im All", Mario and Luigi are seen driving karts in their mission to find a spaceship shaped like the Nintendo 64. They compete against Wario and Bowser and make another reference to the Mario Kart games by dropping Banana Peels and making them crash. The karts seen in this comic resemble those seen in the then-new Mario Kart 64. Unlike their video game equivalents, though, they can also be turned into jet skis by pushing a button on their steering-wheels.

Mario Kirby Meisaku Video

A Pipe Frame makes an apperance resembling the one in Super Mario Kart in the Mario segment of the Mario Kirby Meisaku Video where Mario drives it during his pursuit of the mysterious thief W. Eventually, after being attacked by some monsters, he spins out near a vegetable garden.

Super Mario-Kun

A kart. Page 145 of volume 6 of Super Mario-kun.

Pipe Frame karts are seen in the Mario Kart adaptions of Super Mario-Kun. The first time they appear, Mario races against other characters including Donkey Kong Jr. and Bowser.

Super Smash Bros. series

Super Smash Bros. Melee Trophy

Name Image Game Description
Racing Kart File:Trophy213.PNG Super Mario Kart
9/92
The famous racing karts from the ever-popular Mario Kart racing series come loaded for speed with three different engine sizes: 50, 100, and 150 cc. The karts' handling differs with the characters driving them, but all of them utilize Mario Kart standards like drift, jump, and turbo. They're extremely durable and impossible to total.

Names in other languages

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Trivia

  • In Mario Kart 64, Toad and Donkey Kong are the only characters to have unique engine sounds that is not shared with any other character.
  • In Mario Kart 7, white is the only Mii color to receive a unique Pipe Frame color, as no other character uses a white Pipe Frame.
    • In Mario Kart 8, this trait instead applies to the color brown, unless the alternate Yoshi and Shy Guy colors are not downloaded; in that case white remains an exclusive to Miis.
  • Metal Mario is the only character in Mario Kart 8 (including Miis, DLC characters, Yoshis and Shy Guys) to use the Metallic Grey Pipe Frame
  • In Mario Kart 7, when being driven, it has a similar engine sound as the Poltergust 4000 (and other karts that share the same sound) from Mario Kart DS, albeit much lower pitched and louder. However, whilst being revved to perform a Rocket Start, its sound is identical to the Mach Bike from Mario Kart Wii.
  • In Mario Kart 8, Morton Koopa Jr. is the only Koopaling who uses a black steering wheel instead of a multi-colored one.

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