Items was a statistic only appearing in Mario Kart DS. This stat would determine your chance of getting a good item (for example, Triple Bananas in first place or a Bullet Bill in last). Mainly, there were three different levels of item stats: Low, rated at 33, Medium, rated at 67, and High. rated at 100. Each character had one kart that had High Item stat, one with Medium Item stat, and one with Low Item stat. The standard Kart for the character always has a Medium Item stat, one of their special karts would have a low item stat, and the other special one would have a high item stat.
Note that karts with a High Item stat have lower stats on everything else (Speed, Acceleration, Drift, Handling, and so on) except for Weight on heavyweight karts. This stat would also determine how many Mushrooms you would get in Time Trial mode. Low Item stat karts would get one, Medium Item stat karts would get two, and High Item stat karts would get three. So that would mean, if there was a shortcut on that course, the player would want to pick the high item stat kart in Time Trials.
A pattern recognized by the karts with low and high items stats is that the lighter karts with smaller tires have the low items stat, while the heavier karts with larger tires will have a high items stat.
Karts by Item stats[]
Low Item Stat Karts[]
Medium Item Stat Karts[]
High Item Stat Karts[]
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- ↑ Due to sharing all of the same statistics as the Standard YS.