Mine (from favorite to least)
1.Mario Kart 64 (perfect balance between non-broken items, relatively even karts, semi-difficult tracks, and speed, not to mention awesome battle stages)
2.Mario Kart Super Circuit (easily the most skill-weilding, this game is the fastest in the series (bordering on F-Zero speed to scale) brought the ideas of rankings, 1-P versus mode, customizable lap amounts (to a degree) and other stats, retro tracks, and some of the most original race ideas in the series. Like I've said before if they made a 3-D version of this with Mario Kart 64's physics it would be #1)
3. Mario Kart DS (lots of replay value, not so easy tracks, 8-player battle mode WITH CPU AND BLOCK FORT, great retros, a way to avoid broken items, the quickest mini-turbos in the series, great wi-fi (other than those cowards that dc) and THE ABILITY FOR EACH DRIVER TO GO INTO ANY VEHICLE THEY WANT! Why is this only 3rd on my list? Four things, the battle cpu is only good in balloon runners, wifi is very limited (although it was the first wifi game by Nintendo) only allowing 4-players, the somewhat (but not overly) sluggish feel of non-snaking racing, and the replacement of the Chain Chomp with the Bullet Bill, the item that single-handedly made this game more illogical than a cartoon should be, why couldn't your car be on top of the bullet? Nooooooo, you HAD to be the bullet.)
4. Super Mario Kart (Hardest ai in the series, and it cheats . . . . ., tracks are also overly narrow, but they're still great)
5. Mario Kart Arcade GP 1/2(While not too memorable, it has the largest variety of items in the series, and has three ideas that I was disappointed were never used again that were amazing: the lock-on system (which turns your car into a first-person shooter during the boss battles), the random extra rules (like mushroom-only item boxes, no mini-turbos, one lap of racing, etc.) that were chosen so that only one would take place per race, and the reusing of tracks to create alternate routes ala F-Zero.)
6. Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (While the double-player karts and specials are great, shortcuts that are not detected by the computer, the game suffers from the reduction of props during multi-player, plus the tracks were very linear and with the exception of Wario Colleseum, not that difficult. Definitely the most strategic in the series however.)
7. Mario Kart Wii (With broken items galore, overly simplistic tracks, subpar retro track selection, a dumbed-down mini-turbo engine, a team-only battle mode with virtually pointless balloons and spiny shells, and a heavily imbalanced character and vehicle selection, the only few things I liked were the "tournaments" (which should be available full time, but aren't) and stunts, although the stunts were also overly simplified since it auto-corrects your vehicle and can only be activated on certain textures. (There are plenty of spots were you should be able to do stunts (i.e.Mushroom Gorge's last u-turn or the cliffs on Grumble Volcano), but can't because the model there wasn't built to allow the stunt mode to be activated. >_<)
Well that's all I have to say about rankings.
@mariobrouser: depends, it clearly dominates the game (you can have times over twenty seconds faster than the staff ghosts using snaking) it's actually a very difficult tech to master which is why I love it, I usually have closer races with snakers than non-snakers and they feel more intense. You haven't felt how awesome it is when you beat three other snakers by less than a second at SMK Mario Circuit 1 by PRB'ing or Yoshi Circuit by taking the shortcut each lap just by using snaking speed.
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