Remember the 130mph lawn mower being built by Honda for Top Gear? Well it has taken to the test track.
The BBC reports that the machine broke 100mph on the back straight of the Circuit de Charade testing course in France.
The team building the machine are hoping to take on the official lawn mower speed record, which stands at 96.5mph, but to do this it has to retain its ability to cut grass.
And therein lies the challenge.
"The main engineering challenge stems from the need to retain the look of the lawn mower on which it is based, and the ability to still cut grass while achieving the speed and the handling characteristics required for this type of vehicle," said Peter Crolla, team manager at Team Dynamics - Honda's UK motor racing team partner - which is overseeing the project.
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you would be able to cut a lot of grass at that speed (when it starts growing again) i wounder what price per m2 the charge would be
That looks like the beast :-) And the way fuel prices are going it could be quite a bill though!