Winning races earns money that can be spent to tune cars by purchasing new engines, mufflers, computers and other components, increasing top speed, acceleration or traction. Many of the courses take the miniature car concept literally and take place in large everyday locations like a bathroom, a piano or a billiard table. Races are displayed in a Mode-7-style sprite scaling and rotation engine, with cars displayed as rendered bitmaps. Finishing in first or second place in a race is necessary to advance - finishing further behind costs a life. The game's main Grand Prix mode is organized into four increasingly difficult cups that have to be taken on in order, each consisting of two sets of four races. It features 25 cars that can be taken for races on 16 different tracks. Hot Wheels: Burnin' Rubber is a racing game licensed from the line of toy cars.
