Red Lawn Mower

Red Lawn Mower is exactly the sort of product name that tells you the job before it tells you anything else: it is a mower for cutting grass, and the red part mostly says something about appearance. By our assessment, that makes it useful as a plain category label, but also frustratingly noncommittal, because red says nothing about power, drive type, cut width, or whether it is push, self-propelled, or ride-on. The real strength of any mower in this kind of unnamed bundle is the basic lawn job itself, and the real weakness is that the name gives almost no help in choosing among the many alternatives. In practice, mowing is always about grass height, trimming edges, emptying clippings, and whether the machine starts and stores cleanly. Red Lawn Mower sits among the most ordinary garden tools, where the useful differences are mechanical and the color is just the least important part. It is hard to judge more kindly than that without details that the name simply does not provide.