Port Aventura, a large park located in Spain, brought us the groundbreaking Furius Baco in the summer of 2007. This coaster, made by the famous Intamin AG and designed by Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH, is a hydraulically launched wing walker coaster. Its classification as a wing walker is due to the fact that the seats of the car straddle the track on either side instead or on top of the track like a traditional coaster. This results in the riders’ feet dangling with nothing beneath or above them since they are sitting directly parallel to the track.

With a top speed of 83.9 mph Furius Baco was the fastest coaster in Europe when it opened, but its title has since been stolen by the Europe's current fastest coaster, Ring Racer in Germany. However, Furius Baco still holds the record of the fastest ride in the world with an inversion. This inversion is an inline twist that comes towards the middle of the ride’s layout.

Furius Baco begins in when the car pulls up in a tunnel and stops for a few seconds. This stop is just momentary, as soon the hydraulic launch kicks into action and the train accelerates up to a speed in the 80mph range. As it exits the launch track it enters a little dip and starts into a long right hand turn through a themed trench. It holds in this turn for a while, when suddenly it hops into an s-turn through a metal tunnel. After the tunnel its back into an ascending right hand turn. When the turn reaches its top height, it changes banking back into a left hand turn and begins descending back towards the ground. When the track reaches the ground it enters its only inversion, the inline roll. The train spins close to 360 degrees around and exits the inline roll with another dive back towards the Earth. This time, however, the track heads into a left hand turn out above the water. The track turns hard to the left just a few feet above the water. After completing the turn, the track rises back up and completely un-banks. Upon reaching the top of its ascent, the track levels out and the train glides into its final brake run. The train gracefully slows down and re-enters the station where the riders get off the ride and depart on the rest of their day at Port Aventura, the home of five other coasters.

Furius Baco represents a great leap forward in the technology and innovations possible with the design of trains in the future. If Intamin keeps progressing the way they did with Furius Baco, who knows how far they can go in the future.