- eight Grand Prix cups
- first-person mode doesn't show hands on the steering wheel
- shift in/out of first person by pressing up/down on the d-pad
- steer with Slide Pad or gyroscope
- no way to turn off gyroscope controls for first-person view
- jumping off the top of ramps once again lets you do a trick
- Tanooki tail will spin as your propeller when driving underwater
- game limits you to a maximum of ten coins
- single-card play returns, but forces every other player to drive a Shy Guy and a default kart
- “racer card” only keeps track of a finite amount of communities