This Is Honda’s New 150-MPH, 190-HP Lawn Mower

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Honda’s Mean Mower V2 is powered by a 1.0-liter four-cylinder engine from a Fireblade SP motorcycle.

In 2014, Honda’s British Touring Car Championship partner modified a HF 2620 lawn tractor, called it the Mean Mower, and set the land speed record for mowers at 116 mph. (We also drove the Mean Mower; it was terrifying.) But only a year later, a Norwegian named Per-Kristian Lundefaret took his modified Viking T6 all the way up to 133.57 mph. Honda couldn’t let this stand forever.

And so the touring-car aces at Team Dynamics went back to the drawing board, fitting an HF 2622 mower with a pile of custom parts created using CAD design and 3D printing. They also added a lot of power by installing a 999-cc four-cylinder from a Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade SP motorcycle, which means Mean Mower V2, as it’s known, makes 190 horsepower—60 hp more than before. With that much muscle, it’s almost at the vaunted 1-hp to 1-kg power-to-weight ratio, which is Koenigsegg One:1 territory.
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The Fireblade motorcycle also donates its clutch, six-speed gearbox, and full-color LCD display. Shifts are controlled through carbon-fiber paddles on the steering wheel, with the team estimating that the mower reaches 90 mph in first gear.

I hate yardwork. But maayyybbbeeeeeee it's time to reconsider.

 

[bradgator2]

 

[Swamp Donkey]

I just put a Type R and vtec emblem on mine instead.


Im thinking about adding a wing or two on the back and some flourescent lights underneath.

 

[divits]

"Honey, I'm gonna go out and mow the..................aaaaand I'm done!"

 

[crosscreekcooter]

def needz some 22's

 

[URGatorBait]

The real question is.....why don't you already have one?