Posted on 07/11/2018 6:07:07 AM PDT by C19fan
Honda is working on the world's fastest lawn mower, which will reach speeds of up to 150mph (240 km/h).
The 'Mean Mower V2' features a 999cc engine that is capable of churning out 189 horsepower and sending the garden vehicle from 0-60mph in less than three seconds.
That makes the Mean Mower V2 is more powerful than the base model Audi A3 (103 bhp) and quicker than a Ferrari 488 (0-60 mph in 3.0 seconds).
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
And GPS autopilot and a beer cooler
When we moved to our place in 2011, I bought a used Craftsman rider with a 46” deck and used it to mow the acre or so around our house and left the rest of it as hay for a neighbor for his Angus cattle. But my wife hated all that long stuff surrounding our place. Plus, the last couple of years, every time I used that mower something broke, be it a belt, bent rod (I mentioned in another thread that a mouse had built a home around one of the cylinders, caking the cooling fins with dried mud), even a rabbit chewing through a fuel line. It took 2.5 hours to mow that acre.
Now the five acres takes the same time and same gas. And it’s like living in a park. It’s also fun to practice using my Irons on it (golf). That 60” zero turn changed our life. Funny how a mower does that. I should have bought it when we moved here.
I’ve heard of MTD but never seen one. Are they as fast as a Honda? :-D
Amazing. A DM writer managed to figure out that 189hp > 103hp.
Why he made that particular comparison will remain his secret, of course.
Terrafirminator
I suppose that if I had a plot of a couple of acres of grass that I wanted mowed, this might be worth while.
I suppose that if I had a plot of a couple of acres of grass that I wanted mowed, this might be worth while.
I think that Honda has me beat. Lol. Once I cleaned up the
Fuel lines and changed the oil, it ran well. Just had to put an edge back on the blades after that.
Your rig sounds impressive. Probably out of my price range, though. Paid $300 for the Yard Machines mower and put another $150 into it to bring it up to snuff. No cup holder, though. Snif.
Meh ... all Hondas are overpriced especially the mowers. I buy the cheapest Home Depot mower they have every three years for $100-150. After 9 years I will have approached the price of the average Honda mower and had a new mower three times.
Least I be bounced into neighboring fields, whilst the tool runs amok.
Dizzying!
You can usually see objects in the road a lot further away at high speed, and they usually get removed by someone other than you. Also, your car, unlike your mower, isn’t designed to impact everything more than 3 inches off the ground. I’d hate to mow over a rake or hedge clippers or any kind of object left by someone in a field at any speed let alone highway or autobahn speeds.
Already done by Tim Taylor of “Tool Time”. AOGH?!?
Fernando Alonso is probably wondering why Honda was doing this instead of supplying a decent engine to McLaren.
Ejection seat and parachute maybe?
I need something like that. It takes me six plus hours to mow my two plus acres. Of course I may hit a few trees at about a hundred or so.
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