B Dasher
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Mario, drifting his B Dasher.
The B Dasher is Mario's main kart of choice in the game Mario Kart DS. It is a long, skinny, white kart with stripes along each side. It appeard on the boxart of Mario Kart DS. The car is likely based on an old fashioned Formula-1 car. It has average speed, acceleration, weight, handling, and drift and high acceleration.
In Mario Kart Wii, there is a kart known as the "B Dasher Mk. 2" in Europe, Australia and Japan, making it the Mario Kart DS kart's successor. However, it's called Sprinter in the American edition of Mario Kart Wii.
Trivia
- B Dasher is also the name of an unofficial Japanese song based on the the Super Mario Bros. theme music. This song, which featured humorous voice-overs saying phrases such as "Luigi's getting sulky", proved itself quite popular in Japan.
- Its name is most likely a reference to the controls of the side-scrolling NES games - the player presses and holds the B button to dash.
- In Mario Kart Arcade GP 2, Mario's original kart resembles a stylized form of the B Dasher.
- The B Dasher's tailpipe design seems to be the inspiration for the tailpipe designs of the Standard Karts S/M/L from Mario Kart Wii.
