{"id":37316,"date":"2019-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/honda-mean-mower-v2-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:10:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:10:58","slug":"honda-mean-mower-v2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/honda-mean-mower-v2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda Mean Mower V2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Five years ago, engineers at Honda’s gardening division came up with the idea of developing a very special ride-on lawn mower. This shouldn’t mow very well, but drive very fast. They quickly found a name for it: Mean Mower. On March 8, 2014, this vehicle hit a topspeed of 116.87 mph, a world record for the Guinness Book of Records. Since then, Honda hasn’t let go of this idea, and last summer presented the Mean Mower V2, which was developed together with Team Dynamics, the team that races the Honda Civic in BTCC. This time, the vehicle wasn’t based on an existing ride-on mower, but developed by CAD on the computer and then built from scratch from specially manufactured components, of which some were made in 3D printers. To achieve a certain ‘family resemblance’, the Mean Mower V2 comes with the front mask, grass catcher and some body parts of the Honda HF 2622, a normal ride-on mower available to everybody.

The drive is a 999 cc four-cylinder engine, which usually performs in the top-of-the-line motorcycle of Honda, the CBR1000RR Fireblade SP. At 13,000 rpm, 200 hp are available. Thanks to the super lightweight T45 steel frame and the engine dry weight of just 69.1 kg, the Mean Mower V2 achieves a power-to-weight ratio that exceeds that of a Bugatti Chiron. To prove the full potential of this construction, Timing Solutions Limited and an observer of the Guinness Book of Records were invited on the 6th May to the oval circuit of the Lausitzring near Dresden\/Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n

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