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The '''Pipe Tour''' was the one-hundredth tour of ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'', which began on July 12, 2023 and ended on July 25, 2023. This tour introduced 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, while also adding two pipe-based karts - one being the [[Boo Pipes]] from ''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]'', and the other being the new [[Gold Pipes]] kart. [[Wiggler]] was 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]]'' (which released on the same day as this tour). In addition, a variant of [[Pauline]] in a cowgirl outfit was 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 saw the first reappearances of [[Wii Dry Dry Ruins]] since its debut in the [[Ninja Tour (2023)|2023 Ninja Tour]], [[GBA Yoshi Desert]] since its debut in the [[Yoshi Tour (2023)|2023 Yoshi Tour]], and [[Piranha Plant Cove]] and Piranha Plant Cove 2 since their debut in the [[Exploration Tour (2023)|2023 Exploration Tour]], as well as the first reappearances of [[N64 Kalimari Desert]], [[GBA Sunset Wilds]] and [[3DS Piranha Plant Slide]] since the 2023 Exploration Tour, and the first reappearance of [[GCN Dino Dino Jungle]] since the [[Animal Tour]]. Counting re-routes as separate courses, this was the first tour since the 2023 Ninja Tour to introduce only a single course to the game.

This was the first tour since the [[Tokyo Tour]] to give the [[Cheep Charger]] a new favorite course, the first since the [[New Year's 2021 Tour]] to give the [[Oilpaper Umbrella]] a new favorite course, and the first since the [[Halloween Tour (2021)|2021 Halloween Tour]] to give [[Waluigi|Waluigi (Bus Driver)]] a new favorite course.

The [[Coin Rush (Mario Kart Tour)|Coin Rush]] course for this tour was Piranha Plant Pipeline. The menu background featured the mountain from the starting area of Piranha Plant Pipeline as the tour's landmark.

 

This was the final tour to introduce a new, non-alternate costume character to ''Tour'', in the form of [[Wiggler]].