TopGear and Honda unleash Stig on a 210kph MeanMower

BBC’s TopGear Magazine has teamed up with Honda to tap the extreme lawn-care equipment market with the MeanMower.

Loosely based on the Honda HF2620 ride-on, the MeanMower was stripped and re-built by Honda's British Touring Car experts at Team Dynamics, adding a spaceframe chassis, a 1000cc Honda VTR Firestorm motorbike engine, bespoke suspension and tyres from a racing ATV.
But despite looking like the standard mower, the Honda now produces 109bhp and 71lb ft – making it theoretically capable of zero to 100 kph (60mph) in under four seconds, and a record-breaking top speed of around 210 kph (130mph). And it still cuts grass.
The mower managed 160.98 kph (100.03mph) on track at TopGear Magazine's annual Speed Week event – a tyre-shredding test of 14 of the year's best performance machines. Watch the Stig drive it here: http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/top-gear-magazine-speed-week-2013-7-17
See the full story in the latest issue of TopGear Magazine, available in print and on iPad, or go to http://www.topgear.com/speedweek .
"With the TopGear lawn to mow and a Stig on the staff, it seemed perfectly normal to work with Honda to create this thing," said TopGear's Piers Ward. "Though I have to say, having driven it, I've never been so terrified. It accelerates like a rocket and, like any mower, there aren't any seatbelts."