Diamondback vs Montu

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.

Diamondback is a steel Hyper Coaster coaster at Kings Island, US, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. Montu is a steel Inverted Coaster coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, 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 Diamondback at 230 ft against 150 ft — a long way clear.
• Speed goes to Diamondback at 81 mph against 60 mph — well clear.
• Montu inverts 7 times against nothing at all from Diamondback — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput goes to Montu at 1,710 rph against 1,620 rph — ahead by a whisker.
• Build Cost goes to Diamondback at 22 $m against 20 $m — clearly ahead.
• 13 years separate them, and because Vintage rewards age it is Montu (1996) that banks the point, not Diamondback (2009).