Hasta La Ideas

The only stand-out memory I have of a lawnmower is the one time my father decided to take a short-cut down our neighborhood’s hill—”Killer Hill,” as we affectionately call it—on his way to groom a vacationing neighbor’s lawn. Ask him about it today and he still pales at the memory. (His brakes locked and he flew down that hill at the mercy of the wind and his semi-steady grip on the steering wheel.) Lucky for him—or maybe not—he wasn’t riding Honda’s Mean Mower, with was recently named “fastest lawnmower in the world.” They’re not messing around—last March, the machine reached a speed of 116 MPH. I can’t possibly think of a reason when you’d have to go that fast using the lawnmower for what it was actually created for, but for the sake of engine hacking and whatnot, this is pretty rad. Check out this slightly dramatic video of the Mean Mower in action:

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