Car

Cars (not to be confused with Karts) are obstacles appearing in the Mario Kart series. They rarely appear in the game and actually only appear in a few courses: Toad's Turnpike (Mario Kart 64), Mushroom Bridge and Mushroom City (Mario Kart: Double Dash!!), and Shroom Ridge (Mario Kart DS).

When a player crashes into a car, he or she will spin out or be launched into the air and then come back down. The cars in the game are used as obstacles for the player. When a player crashes into one of the cars, the car will sometimes honk.

Cars have also appeared many times in a few episodes of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!. Other than the Mario Kart and the show appearances, cars don't seem to be a common form of transportation in the Mushroom Planet, unlike in Earth, where the car is a commonly-used form of transportation.