[djomlas]

i have the escort 8500 and love it, doesnt look like a big atari box, and its jsut as good as the V1 from what i have experience with both.
a buddy of mine just picked up a gently used one for 145 on fleebay, so its a good bang for the buck.
and that thing saved me toooo many times, i absolutely love it.

i have no experience with bell, just the V1 and escort.

and for them telling me to take it off and that its illegal, never happened to me, im sure you can have it and its legal.

the one street i drive on every night it goes off every simgle time by all the cops hiding in cemeteries, behind buildings and such, every night, and i already know that they are there, so i jsut wait to hear the beep and to see how far i really am from them, works good.

so yea, either V1 of the escort 8500 will do you good, but if you want the BEST i guess go with v1, i dont really like the v1, but a lot of people do and i havent heard any regrets from either actually, espacially v1

good luck, and dont speed too much anyways