Wood

The Wood tires (known as the Wooden tires in PAL regions) are a set of unlockable tires in Mario Kart 7. Although they may seem inconvenient, the Wood tires actually offer a good boost of acceleration and handling, but their speed and weight are hindered. The Wood tires are the only set of wheels to offer a handling boost, but no off-road boost.

The Wood tires also appear in Mario Kart 8, where they appear different, and affect certain stats differently.

Stat boosts
Stat values are out of 6.

Mario Kart 7

 * Speed: -0.5
 * Acceleration: +0.5
 * Weight: -0.5
 * Handling: +1.25
 * Off-Road: 0

Mario Kart 8

 * Speed: -0.25
 * Acceleration: +0.25
 * Weight: -0.25
 * Handling: -0.25
 * Traction: +0.5

Trivia

 * The tires of the DK Jumbo, from Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, have a similar appearance to the Wood tires. However, unlike the Wood tires, the DK Jumbo offers much less acceleration.