Karts are particular vehicles that appear in some of the racing spin-offs of the Crash Bandicoot series, with the exception of Crash Tag Team Racing, which uses cars instead of karts.

Description[]

Crash Team Racing[]

The kart first appeared in Crash Team Racing, which is the first Crash Bandicoot spin-off game to introduce racing in the series. In the game, each character has a specific color for their kart (for instance, Crash's kart is blue, Cortex's kart is red, Tiny's kart is green, Coco's kart is pink and so on). All karts are the exact same model, with the exception of Nitros Oxide, who drives a hovercraft instead. They all feature pipework that holds the kart together, dual exhaust engines, no sides, and large silver-rimmed wheels.

The kart returns as the "Classic" kart in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, in which it is fully customizable like all other karts in the game. Nitro-Fueled also includes a Retro version of the kart in the PlayStation 4 release.

Kart Drivers and their Colors[]

Crash Bandicoot: Blue

Coco Bandicoot: Pink

Dr. Neo Cortex: Red

N. Gin: Violet

Dingodile: Olive

Tiny Tiger: Green

Polar: Aqua

Pura: Purple

Fake Crash: Blue-grey

N. Tropy: Light Blue

Papu Papu: Yellow

Ripper Roo: Orange

Pinstripe: Charcoal

Komodo Joe: Mustard

Penta Penguin: White

Nitros Oxide: Lime

Crash Nitro Kart[]

Karts reappear in Crash Nitro Kart, the second racing spin-off game in the Crash Bandicoot series. In this game, the evil Emperor Velo modified the karts of the challengers to make them able to race the different tracks in his domain. The vehicles' main difference, other than the overall aesthetics, is the ability to turn their wheels sideways, enabling them to stick to the track in an anti-gravity mode. This mode also changes the exhaust pipes into electric poles, probably used to power the anti-gravity mechanisms.

Instead of using one kart model colored differently for each character, there are five vehicle designs - each belonging to one of the four teams- Team Bandicoot, Team Cortex, Team Oxide, and Team Trance, with the fifth, referred to in Nitro-Fueled as the Velo Chopper, being used by Velo and the Champions. Unlike Crash Team Racing, the karts' colors are all shared between members of their respective teams.

Teams and their karts:[]

¹ - Only in console version

² - Only in Game Boy Advance version

Crash Nitro Kart 2[]

There are eight karts in the game. Other than the first one, they are all locked. In order to unlock them, the player must collect a certain amount of Wumpa Fruit. Despite each kart belonging to a specific character, any character can race in any kart.

Kart	Stats	Unlock Condition
Crash's Kart	Acceleration - High Speed - Med Handling - Low	Unlocked by default
Coco's Kart	Acceleration - Med Speed - High Handling - Med	Unlocked with 35 wumpa fruit
Cortex's Kart	Acceleration - Very High Speed - Low Handling - Med	Unlocked with 50 wumpa fruit
Ripper Roo's Kart	Acceleration - Med Speed - High Handling - Low	Unlocked with 70 wumpa fruit
Yaya's Kart	Acceleration - Med Speed - High Handling - High	Unlocked with 100 wumpa fruit
Nina's Kart	Acceleration - Med Speed - High Handling - Very High	Unlocked with 120 wumpa fruit
Tiny Tiger's Kart	Acceleration - Very High Speed - High Handling - Med	Unlocked with 135 wumpa fruit
Oxide's Kart	Acceleration - High Speed - Very High Handling - Med	Unlocked with 160 wumpa fruit

Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart 3D and Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2[]

Karts based on the designs of the cars from Crash Tag Team Racing appear in both Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart 3D and Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2, but this time every character only has one kart.

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled[]

Karts in Nitro-Fueled are like that of the original Crash Team Racing by default, but they are now highly customizable. There are many different kart bodies, paint jobs, stickers and wheels unlockable to customize karts. The kart bodies available include the original Crash Team Racing kart design and Oxide's Hovercraft, all five kart types from Crash Nitro Kart (teams Bandicoot, Cortex, Trance, Oxide and Velo's kart, now named the Velo Chopper), some kart designs inspired by the cars from Crash Tag Team Racing as well as some original ones. Special Karts, however, cannot be customized.

Classic

Team Bandicoot

Team Trance

Team Cortex

Team Oxide

Hovercraft

Cabrio

Crikey

Deadinator

Doom Buggy

Imperium

Roadster

Six-Pipes

Trikee

Le Chaux

Bandibuggy

Champion

Rocket

Mammoth

Nostalginator

Probulot 2000

Cove Cruiser

Dragonfly

Spyromobile

Gnasty Ride

Nautilus

Skull Rider

Phantom

Nitro Bumper

Daredevil

Pressurizer

Nitro Sleigh

Candy Cone

Snowplower

Dusty Rider

Desert Duster

The Nuke

Void Manta

Velo Chopper

Galactic Cruiser

Retro Karts

Firehawk

Xfinity Flash Kart

Appearances[]

• Crash Team Racing
• Crash Nitro Kart
• Crash Bandicoot & Spyro Adventure World
• Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage (Bandicoot Kart - as a card)
• Crash Nitro Kart 2
• Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D
• Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2
• Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
• Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (cameo)

Gallery[]

Crash Team Racing[]

Promotional GIF

Render of a kart.

Render of a kart.

Render of a kart.

Render of a kart.

Render of a kart.

Render of a kart.

Render of Oxide's hovercraft.

Render of Oxide's hovercraft.

Render of Oxide's hovercraft.

Render of Oxide's hovercraft.

Promotional render of Crash driving his kart

Promotional render of Crash in his kart

Promotional render of Crash reading the official PlayStation magazine in his kart

Promotional render of Crash from Crash Team Racing

Promotional render of Crash from CTR

Promotional render of Crash from CTR

Alternate angle of previous.

Promotional render of Crash from CTR

Non-blurred version of previous.

Promo render of Crash with his kart

Promo render of Crash in his kart in a power shield

Promo render of Crash

A Japanese promo render of Crash

A Japanese promo render of Crash

A Japanese promo render of Crash

A Japanese promo render of Crash

Promotional artwork of Neo Cortex in his red kart

Promotional artwork of Cortex falling out of his kart

Promotional artwork of Cortex in his kart, dreaming of victory

Promo render of Cortex's kart exploding

Promo render of Cortex winking and giving a thumbs up in his kart

Promotional artwork for Cortex from CTR

A Japanese render of Cortex

A Japanese render of Cortex and Polar racing

Promo render of Tiny

Promo render of Tiny

Promo render of Tiny

A Japanese render of Tiny

Promotional artwork of Coco in her pink kart

Promotional artwork of Coco in her kart

Promotional artwork of Coco using her laptop in her kart

Promotional artwork of Coco standing by her kart in CTR

Promotional artwork for Coco from CTR

Promo render of Coco

Promo render of Coco

Japanese render of Coco

Japanese render of Coco

Promo render of N. Gin

Japanese render of N. Gin

Promotional artwork of Dingodile putting petrol in his kart

Promotional artwork of Dingodile in his olive kart

Japanese render of Dingodile

Promotional artwork of Polar in his kart in CTR

Promotional artwork of Polar in his kart in CTR

Promotional artwork of Polar in his kart in CTR

Promotional artwork of Polar in his kart in CTR

Promotional artwork of Polar in his kart

Japanese render of Polar

Promotional artwork of Pura in his purple kart

Promo render of Pura in his kart

Promotional artwork of Pura by his kart

Japanese render of Pura

Promotional artwork of Ripper Roo in his kart

Japanese render of Ripper Roo

Promotional artwork of Papu Papu in his kart

Promotional artwork of Komodo Joe in his mustard-colored kart

Promotional artwork of Komodo Joe in his kart

Japanese render of Komodo Joe

Promotional artwork of Pinstripe in his kart

Promotional artwork of Fake Crash in his kart

Promotional artwork of N. Tropy in his kart

Promo render of N. Tropy's time trial ghost

Japanese render of N. Tropy

Japanese render of Penta Penguin

Promotional artwork of Nitros Oxide in his hovercraft

Concept art of Nitros Oxide's hovercraft

Japanese render of Oxide ramming N. Gin

Crash Nitro Kart[]

Crash Bandicoot in his Team Bandicoot kart

Team Bandicoot Karts in their magnetic forms in Crash Nitro Kart

Crash in his kart

Crash in his kart

Crash in the Team Bandicoot kart

Coco in the Team Bandicoot kart

Crunch in the Team Bandicoot kart

Crunch in the Team Bandicoot kart

Cortex in the Team Cortex kart

N. Gin in the Team Cortex kart

N. Trance in the Team Trance kart

Polar in the Team Trance kart

Nitros Oxide in the Team Oxide kart

Oxide in the Team Oxide kart

Zam in the Team Oxide kart

Zem in the Team Oxide kart

Concept Art for CNK

Concept Art for CNK

Concept Art for CNK

Concept Art for CNK

Concept Art for CNK

Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage[]

Sprite of Crash driving the Team Bandicoot Kart in Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled[]

Team Bandicoot's kart in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

Team Cortex's kart in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

Team Oxide's kart in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

Team Trance's kart in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

Render of the karts added in the Nitro Tour Grand Prix

Render of the karts added in the Back N. Time Grand Prix

Render of the Spyromobile

Render of the Phantom

Render of the karts added in the Neon Circus Grand Prix

Render of the karts added in the Winter Festival Grand Prix

Render of the karts added in the Rustland Grand Prix

Render of the karts added in the Gasmoxia Grand Prix

Render of the karts added in the first Post-Grand Prix patch

Render of The Cog along with other content added in the Beenox Pack

Concept art of the Rocket

Concept art of the Mammoth

Concept art of the Spyromobile

Concept art of the Dragonfly

Concept art of the Gnasty Ride

Concept art of the Nautilus

Concept art of the Phantom

Concept art of the Pressurizer

Concept art of the Daredevil

Concept art of the Snowplower

Concept art of the Nitro Sleigh

Concept art of the Candy Corn

Concept art of the Dusty Rider

Concept art of The Nuke

Concept art of the Desert Duster

Concept art of the Galactic Cruiser

Concept art of the Void Manta

Concept art of the Velo Chopper

Concept art of The Cog

Concept art of the Nitro GT

Trivia[]

Crash Team Racing[]

• In promotional artwork, the karts have silver or gold pipe work that hold the kart together. But in game, these designs are altered.
  • The Karts in the Adventure mode Character Select, Intro, and Boss Conversations all have silver pipe work, including characters that have golden pipework in artwork, such as Crash and Cortex.
  • During actual races, battles, and character selects, the pipework is the same color as the kart.
• The kart wheels are similar to the previous games' Wumpa Fruit. Rather than being 3D objects, they are billboards (sprites that always directly face the camera). They are more complex than the Wumpa Fruit in that their animation changes depending on the camera angle, giving them the impression of being in 3D. This was necessary because of hardware limitations.
  • It's only like this during character selects, races, and battles. In the adventure mode character select, intro, and boss interactions, they're fully modeled.

Crash Nitro Kart[]

• The box art for the game and artwork for Tiny Temple show Coco's kart to be pink instead of the standard blue.
• In the pre-race cutscene for Emperor Velo XXVII's first boss race, his champion kart is golden instead of purple.

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled[]

• The Team Cortex and Team Trance karts were given alterations from their original Nitro Kart appearance, with the fronts of the Team Cortex karts changed from a motorcycle-like design (including steering with handlebars instead of a wheel) to a go-kart design, while the Team Trance karts had steering wheels added for animation consistency.