Team Oxide (kart)

The Team Oxide is the kart that the members of Team Oxide drive in Crash Nitro Kart. It is a yellow car with green stripes that features elements from Nitros Oxide's Hovercraft. It reappears in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as a kart set that is unlockable in Adventure mode.

Description
The Team Oxide is a yellow go-kart with green stripes over its body. It is inspired by Nitros Oxide's Hovercraft vehicle from Crash Team Racing, as the front of the vehicle shares similar elements such as the elliptical front of the Team Oxide, the headlights, and its windshield. Unlike the Hovercraft, the vehicle is fully terrestrial, with a set of 4 wheels with green rims, of which the rear ones have wheel well liners, and uses a steering wheel shaped like a yoke and pedals for driving. It has an exposed engine on its back with two pairs of exhaust pipes, similar to how the Hovercraft has three pairs of exhaust pipes, and has two wings with taillights attached to them. In Crash Nitro Kart, during maglev sections of a track, the Team Oxide's wheels and wheel well liners turn sideways and hover along the track, much like the other teams' karts in Crash Nitro Kart, and two tesla rods stick out of the larger exhaust pipes of the vehicle; these tesla rods are described by concept art for the Team Oxide to be remniscent of a "mad scientist".

The kart undergoes some changes in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled; the front loses some of the elliptical shape that connected it to the Hovercraft, with the front being made straighter on the lower part, including a removal of the underside curvature, and the addition of extra protrusions that curve around the headlights. The markings on its front in Crash Nitro Kart, which could be presumed to be a hood, are now a bevel on the body. The front also gains a shaker scoop. Its driver seat goes from being made of leather and colored dark turquoise with lime green accents to being fully metallic with a pale green color. The rims of its wheels now have the CTR logo engraved onto them.

Crash Nitro Kart
The Team Oxide first appears in Crash Nitro Kart as the kart that Team Oxide, comprised of Nitrous Oxide, Zem, Zam, and Emperor Velo XXVII, drive in races. Nitrous Oxide considers the kart to be primitive technology. Unlike the Team Bandicoot kart or the Team Cortex kart, it is not known who was the designer of the kart or if Velo modified it. Like the other karts, however, it is capable of defying gravity by transforming in certain sections of a track. It goes unnamed in this game.

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
The Team Oxide reappears in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as a kart set that can be used by any character and is given a name. Its appearance was changed and the green stripes are now incorporated into the Straight Lines decal for the set's kart body. Like other kart sets in the game, it can be recolored with any paint job; the yellow color of the body corresponds to the primary color of a paint job, the driver seat uses the secondary color, and both the frame of the body and the headlights use the tertiary color. The Team Oxide Yellow paint job features the original primary, secondary, and tertiary colors of the Hovercraft with its decal color likewise being green.

The Team Oxide kart set is fully unlocked by earning a trophy in Oxide Station and 16 CTR Tokens in Adventure mode. It is one of the few kart sets that aren't unlocked in the Pit Stop. Extra kart body decals for the Team Oxide can be obtained from Adventure mode or purchased in the Pit Stop.

The Team Oxide also makes an appearance in adverts seen in Tiny Arena.