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Originally Posted by JackG
Buy an 8500. It doesn't have the "cool" arrows, but it is programmable, can track multiple bogeys (if that's really necessary), and has better KA sensitivity, in my own experience. My 8500 alerted me to a KA threat about 6 seconds before my friend's V1 alerted him. We were traveling side-by-side on a four-lane, and he wondered why I hit the brakes. A little while later his V1 got around to telling him why, complete with a nice arrow pointed forward!
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The arrows are very very functional. That's what makes them "cool". I'm a form follows function kind of guy. If you had one you'd know. I can't tell you why your 8500 had the 6 sec. heads up in your experience, there could be a plethora of explanations and not limited to, e.g., different program running on V1: L, vs l vs A, or different mounting position, different car therefore different diffraction profile, the radar gun was biased to your lane, V1 is broken, baby Jimbo stuck a piece of gum on the front antenna of V1, etc... I dunno.
I do know most scientific testing disagrees with you. The V1 virtually dominates all others, i.e.
Car and Driver,
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/1993/the-great-detector-test-page3.html
And my favorite,
http://www.guysoflidar.com/radar-detector-test-fall-2006/radar-detector-test.html
It can be argued there is a bias there, but that's a stretch. (Although I do believe there are a few dummy forums out there that I ran into, especially Craig Peterson smells fishy
http://valentine1.com/lab/V1Hater.asp). I say that because I have read ALL the reviews word for word, and feel he has a clear bias which is unfounded. It's ok to have a bias, it's a free world for the most part. My thing is that I prefer a bias that's well founded. Hey that's why I drive a Boxster instead of a VW bug type I.
