Watch The Honda Mean Mower Hit 100mph In Six Seconds

Honda's bonkers bike-engined creation has set the Guinness World Record for the fastest accelerating lawn mower
Watch The Honda Mean Mower Hit 100mph In Six Seconds

You can’t help but love the idea of the Honda Mean Mower V2. The custom-built machine uses a 999cc engine pinched from a Fireblade SP superbike, tickled to produce 200bhp at 13,000rpm.

Plenty of power for a grass cutter weighing just 140kg, we’d say. It should come as no surprise, then, that the Mean Mower is brutally fast. As in 0-100mph in 6.29 seconds fast. Drag race this thing against a Porsche 911 GT2 RS, and you’d be in for an extremely close result.

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The 0-100mph is an average of two runs set at the Lausitzring in Germany with stunt driver, kart and car racer Jess Hawkins behind the wheel. A Guinness World Record adjudicator was present to ensure the Mean Mower could be officially crowned as “the fastest acceleration 0-100 mph for a lawnmower (prototype).”

The Honda Mean Mower V2 shares its 999cc engine with the Fireblade SP Superbike
The Honda Mean Mower V2 shares its 999cc engine with the Fireblade SP…

The Guinness official also had to observe Honda’s creation cutting grass, something it’s still able to do despite being a supercar slayer producing over 1000bhp/tonne. It uses a modified cutter deck from an HF 2622 ‘lawn tractor’, with carbonfibre blades powered by electric motors and a pair of batteries instead of the 22bhp V-twin engine used as standard. Plus, it has to “intrinsically look like a lawnmower,” which is why it also uses the grass box, front cowl and various other body panels from the HF 2622.

The Mean Mower is built on a custom frame, incorporating various parts from the HF 2622 'lawn tractor'
The Mean Mower is built on a custom frame, incorporating various parts…

Not content with the 0-100mph runs on their own, Honda also sent Hawkins out for a top speed run, which resulted in a Vmax of 150.99mph. Not bad for something with less than ideal aero properties…

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overused but my reaction was :

06/11/2019 - 16:53 |
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Kevin Rivero

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Wouldn’t it be LTEC in this case? (L for Lawn)

06/11/2019 - 20:12 |
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RWB Dude

Hell yes, this is what i needed to see today

06/11/2019 - 17:32 |
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Anonymous

It be fun to have a honda lawn mower in forza horizon 4 .

06/11/2019 - 20:02 |
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That_1_Guy

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

lego lawnmower racing a hovercraft count me in

06/11/2019 - 21:53 |
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CannedRex24

I never thought i’d see the day when a V-TEC lawnmower would beat a Mclaren F1 to 100mph

06/12/2019 - 08:08 |
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Anonymous

Now I would cut the grass

06/12/2019 - 08:47 |
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Jopel

2020 civic ?

06/12/2019 - 08:52 |
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ATOGI_28

That moment when a lawn mower is faster than your car :O

06/12/2019 - 13:36 |
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Anonymous

There seems to be a teeny tniy problem with the engine, its 999cc it misses that 1 cc.
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06/12/2019 - 14:02 |
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Anonymous

If there isnt a racing game that is made all around lawnmowers I think it would be a gigantic loss.

06/12/2019 - 16:55 |
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EJ22 (A&P Performance co-owner)

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Not exactly made all around them but you can use lawnmowers in Wreckfest xD

06/13/2019 - 07:51 |
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