Summer Tour (2023)

The Summer Tour is the hundred-and-third tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on August 23, 2023 and ends on September 6, 2023. This tour introduces a new city course based on Madrid, called Madrid Drive. With this tour's introduction, a tour named after every season has been held during the game's fourth year, following the Autumn Tour in 2022 and the Winter Tour and Spring Tour earlier in 2023.

The tour also introduces a purple variant of the Pit Crew Toad, and a new outfit for Mario based on his black and blue suit from Super Mario Odyssey, making this the first tour since the Anniversary Tour to introduce a new costume for Mario and marking the final instance of Charles Martinet providing a new voice line for Mario in the Super Mario franchise due to his retirement from voicing characters in the franchise. Additionally, many sport-themed vehicle parts are introduced in this tour, relating to baseball and golf.

This tour concludes the Summertime Celebration, which began in the Sunshine Tour.

This tour features the first appearances of Los Angeles Laps 3 since the 2022 Autumn Tour; Tokyo Blur and Tokyo Blur 2 since the 2023 Winter Tour; Berlin Byways, Berlin Byways 2, and Paris Promenade B since the Spring Tour (marking Paris Promenade B and Berlin Byways R/T's first reappearances following their debut); Wii Moonview Highway following its debut in the Night Tour; Piranha Plant Cove 3 following its debut in the 2023 Mii Tour; Paris Promenade 3R/T following its debut in the 2021 Paris Tour; and the other variants of Paris Promenade 3 since the Metropolitan Tour.

This is the first tour to add favorite courses to Peachette, Pauline, Peach (Kimono), the Poison Apple Kart, and the Star-Spangled Glider since the Peach Tour, 2022 Autumn Tour, 2023 New Year's Tour, and Rosalina Tour, respectively.

The menu's background features the as the tour's landmark. The Coin Rush course for this tour is Madrid Drive.

An in-game announcement titled "About Upcoming Scheduled Tours" is scheduled to be released during this tour, according to internal data.

Poochy appears on the course icon for Berlin Byways R/T despite not being obtainable this tour.

Daily Spotlight
The Daily Spotlight contains a mixture of items themed around the tour, items that have ranked tracks as favorites, and gold items. The rates listed are specific for that type of item; drivers, karts, and gliders are selected separately. Items marked with an asterisk (*) do not appear in the Daily Spotlight during the week they are available as Spotlight Shop banner items.

Today's Challenge
Players' most recently used kart and glider are chosen, and favorite and favored ones have extra priority. Opponents are arranged randomly. On day 1 of this tour, players finish a race in Paris Promenade 3T in the Mii Cup using the Orange Mii Racing Suit for a free pipe launch. Starting from day 2, players have to finish a race in the earliest incomplete course that is not in any of the ranked cups using the driver shown on the course's thumbnail every day to obtain the corresponding reward in the table below. Once all of the courses are completed, the courses are selected at random.

Rewards
Gold cells indicate rewards that are exclusive to Gold Pass members.

Drivers

 * Purple Toad (Pit Crew)
 * Mario (Black Suit)

Mii Racing Suits

 * Orange Mii Racing Suit
 * Blooper Mii Racing Suit

Karts

 * Gold Wild Slugger
 * Spicy Zucchini

Gliders

 * Mario Golf Cap
 * Luigi Golf Cap
 * Gold Mario Golf Cap

Balloon designs

 * Fire Flower Balloon

Courses

 * Madrid Drive (N, R, T, R/T)
 * Madrid Drive 2 (N, R, T, R/T)