Fury 325 vs Manta

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

Manta takes it 4–2, and the 2 Fury 325 does win are the whole of its case.

Fury 325 is a steel Giga Coaster coaster at Carowinds, US, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. Manta is a steel Flying Coaster coaster at SeaWorld Orlando, 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 140 ft — more than double.
• Speed goes to Fury 325 at 95 mph against 56 mph — nearly double.
• Manta inverts 4 times against nothing at all from Fury 325 — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput goes to Manta at 1,500 rph against 1,470 rph — ahead by a whisker.
• Build Cost goes to Manta at 50 $m against 30 $m — nearly double.
• Vintage is reversed, so Manta's 2009 takes it from Fury 325's 2015 — 6 years in it.