New Texas Giant vs Steel Vengeance

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

Steel Vengeance takes it 4–2, and the 2 New Texas Giant does win are the whole of its case.

New Texas Giant is a hybrid IBox Track (Texas Giant conversion) coaster at Six Flags Over Texas, US, built by Rocky Mountain Construction. Steel Vengeance is a hybrid IBox Track (Mean Streak conversion) coaster at Cedar Point, US, built by Rocky Mountain Construction.

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

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

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

Stat by stat

• Height goes to Steel Vengeance at 205 ft against 153 ft — well clear.
• Speed goes to Steel Vengeance at 74 mph against 65 mph — clearly ahead.
• Steel Vengeance inverts 4 times against nothing at all from New Texas Giant — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput goes to New Texas Giant at 1,400 rph against 1,200 rph — well clear.
• Build Cost goes to Steel Vengeance at 20 $m against 10 $m — more than double.
• Vintage is reversed, so New Texas Giant's 2011 takes it from Steel Vengeance's 2018 — 7 years in it.