Alpengeist vs Fury 325

Vintage is the reversed stat — the older ride wins. Every number here is the same one printed on the card; see /methodology for how Build Cost and Throughput are sourced.

The verdict

Honours end even at 3–3, which is the awkward kind of matchup: whoever calls the stat decides the round.

Alpengeist is a steel Inverted Coaster coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, US, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. Fury 325 is a steel Giga Coaster coaster at Carowinds, US, built by Bolliger & Mabillard.

Both are in US, which puts them in the same conversation for anyone planning a trip there.

They come from the same drawing office: Bolliger & Mabillard. That makes the gaps below a question of brief and budget rather than engineering house style.

Both are steel-track, so nothing here is the usual steel-versus-wood argument in disguise.

Stat by stat

• Height goes to Fury 325 at 325 ft against 195 ft — nearly double.
• Speed goes to Fury 325 at 95 mph against 67 mph — a long way clear.
• Alpengeist inverts 6 times against nothing at all from Fury 325 — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput goes to Alpengeist at 1,820 rph against 1,470 rph — well clear.
• Build Cost goes to Fury 325 at 30 $m against 20 $m — a long way clear.
• 18 years separate them, and because Vintage rewards age it is Alpengeist (1997) that banks the point, not Fury 325 (2015).