Mean Mower (lawn-mower)

2019: Announcement

In April, 2019 Honda provided the Mean Mower V2 lawn-mower capable to gather speed more than 240 km/h. It is the fastest in the world at the time of the announcement.

The vehicle was developed together with the partner of Honda — Team Dynamics company. The racing lawn-mower received the SP1 Fireblade engine from the sports motorcycle issuing 190 horsepowers at 13 thousand revolutions per minute.

Mean Mower V2 is equipped with the meter panel, coupling and the brake system (four-piston a support in front, six — behind and the ventilated brake disks) which are also borrowed from the sport bike. 10-inch rims and tires of Hoosier are taken from the ATV.

Transmission includes the six-speed transmission, ECU and ZhK-the screen from Fireblade. The lawn-mower is, allegedly, capable to cut a grass even on maximum speed thanks to edges from carbon fiber, to electric motors, two rechargeable batteries and the chain drive of back wheels.

Honda provided the lawn-mower cutting a grass at a speed of 240 km/h

Designers of Mean Mower V2 so wanted to save traditional appearance of the lawn-mower that specially developed and  printed a ventilating box which was placed under a front cowl.

To reduce machine weight, some parts were printed on the 3D-printer. Thus, it was succeeded to achieve a ratio of power to weight - 1000 hp on 1 kilogram. Lawn-mower weight — 69.1 kg.

The first version of Mean Mower in 2013 was included in the Guinness Book of Records. Then in Spain it managed to gather maximum speed to 187 km/h.

Will pilot Mean Mower V2 on a track for registration of a new world record the 23-year-old racer Jess Hawkins who is a participant of the automobile show Fast & Furious. Exact date of arrival is still unknown. The company emphasized that the superfast lawn-mower passes all necessary tests.^[1]

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