Waluigi being large bugged the hell out of me. I don't like driving the large vehicles so I had to switch back to Luigi.
What's wrong with the large vehicles? They are statistically the best. I want Birdo to go on an eating binge just so he can become large enough to drive them.
This is exactly why removing hopping was such a travesty in Double Dash. In MK64, I could dash from 8th place, hop, bounce off the head of the big lug in front of me, and land in 1st place. You could get amazing air doing that. I once landed on the top level of the double decker battle stage after boosting and bouncing off of DK.
Interesting, I never even thought to try that. I didn't care about the hop missing from Double Dash!! because I had never found a useful application for it. It's annoying that it is still lumped with the powerslide button in MKWii, it should have become its own button. That's one reason why, in some cases, Automatic is better than Manual since you don't hop before powersliding with Automatic.
Anyways, all of this recent discussion about the wheel has encouraged me to finally try it out online. Surprisingly, I actually fared pretty well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sekeEJwysNgThe only achievement left in the game is to reach 9,999VR and 9,999BR, neither of which I think I can do (and it isn't permanent anyway). Therefore I guess it's time I try and see if I can master the wheel.