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The '''Pipe Tour''' is the one-hundredth tour of ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'', which began on July 12, 2023 and ends on July 25, 2023. This tour introduces a brand new [[Warp Pipe|pipe]]-themed course named [[Piranha Plant Pipeline]],<ref name="MKT Twitter 2023-07-07">@mariokarttourEN (July 7, 2023). "[https://twitter.com/mariokarttourEN/status/1677204488590102528 The Night Tour is wrapping up in #MarioKartTour. Next up is the Pipe Tour, full of mountains, valleys, and of course pipes! It features the new course Piranha Plant Pipeline!]" ''Twitter''. Retrieved July 7, 2023. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20230707181253/https://twitter.com/mariokarttourEN/status/1677204488590102528 Archived] July 7, 2023, 18:12:53 UTC via Wayback Machine.)</ref> reflecting the theme of the tour. [[Wiggler]] is introduced as a new driver after its series debut in ''[[Mario Kart 7]]'' along with a themed [[Mii|Mii Racing Suit]], coinciding with Wiggler's inclusion in Wave 5 of the [[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass|''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'' – Booster Course Pass]] (which released on the same day as this tour). In addition, a variant of [[Pauline]] in a cowgirl outfit is introduced as a new driver, making this the first tour since the [[Peach vs. Daisy Tour]] to introduce a variant of Pauline. The tour also sees the first reappearance of [[Wii Dry Dry Ruins]], [[GBA Yoshi Desert]], [[Piranha Plant Cove]] and Piranha Plant Cove 2 after their debuts in the 2023 [[Ninja Tour (2023)|Ninja]], [[Yoshi Tour (2023)|Yoshi]], and [[Exploration Tour (2023)|Exploration]] Tours, respectively. Counting re-routes as seperate courses, this is the first tour since the 2023 Ninja Tour to introduce only a single course to the game. It is also the first tour to not introduce a new balloon design since their introduction.