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I was just mentioning to my husband how much I wanted a chart listing the features of the different vehicles.

I found this on a strategy website. It's not about vehicles, but I think it's accurate.

Lightweights

Baby Mario
Weight+3
Handling+2

Baby Luigi
Weight+3
Speed+2

Baby Peach
Speed+1
Weight+2
Acceleration+1
Handling+1

Baby Daisy
Speed+2
Weight+2
Mini-turbo+1

Toad
Acceleration+2
Drift+2

Toadette
Speed+1
Off-road+2

Koopa
Handling+1
Mini-turbo+2

Dry Bones
Acceleration+1
Drift+1
Mini-turbo+2

Mii
Speed+1
Weight+1
Drift+1
Mini-turbo+1

Middleweights

Mario
Weight+2
Acceleration+1
Handling+1
Drift+1

Luigi
Speed+1
Weight+2

Peach
Speed+1
Acceleration+2
Drift+2

Daisy
Speed+2
Handling+1
Mini-Turbo+1

Yoshi
Weight+1
Drift+1
Off-road+2

Birdo
Weight+1
Off-road+1
Mini-Turbo+2

Diddy Kong
Acceleration+1
Drift+1
Mini-Turbo+2

Bowser Jr.
Off-road+1
Mini-Turbo+1

Mii
Speed+1
Weight+1
Off-road+1
Mini-Turbo+1

Heavyweights

Wario
Weight+1
Off-road+1
Mini-Turbo+2

Waluigi
Acceleration+2
Drift+2
Off-road+1

Donkey Kong
Weight+1
Acceleration+1
Handling+1
Mini-Turbo+1

Bowser
Speed+1
Weight+2
Drift+1

King Boo
Handling+2
Off-road+1

Rosalina
Speed+1
Handling+1
Mini-Turbo+1

Funky Kong
Speed+2
Off-road+1

Dry Bowser
Off-road+2
Mini-Turbo+2

Mii
Speed+1
Acceleration+1
Handling+1
Drift+1

As for strategy, it depends on what races you are doing.

For Grand Prix mode, the object is to be in the lead which means you are going to be hit with a ton of junk that stops you cold over and over again. That means you want a character/vehicle combo that gives you acceleration bonuses.

In Time Trial mode, you want huge top end speed. For this, Heavy Characters on the fast bikes are ideal. Handling and acceleration will be crap, but with liberal use of wheelies you can really scream through the tracks (assuming you can keep them on the tracks that is). If you look at the people dominating in WFC games, it's people using Funky Kong on the fast bike. I haven't unlocked Funky Kong yet, so I clearly suck and you should ignore everything I say.

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