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1. All detectors from radardetectorgeeks.com come with our promise to pay your speeding tickets if the detector lets you down. No one else on the internet has a 20 year tradition of providing you this valuable extra. For added info, just click here for Ticket Guarantee FAQs.
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3. All detectors from radardetectorgeeks.com are subjected to a brutally honest, blunt and irreverent review by our founders, Cannonball Run drivers Paul Graham and Gary Smith. As one of only 7 teams to run the legendary Cannonball without getting even one single ticket, they possess the ultimate street cred in ticket avoidance expertise. For added info, just click here for Cannonball Run hijinks.
4. If you'd like more general insider info on what to look for in a detector, just click here. If you pretty much already know what features you need, here's the bottom line on the Escort 8500 X50 Blue.
In honor of our old friend Brock Yates, the impresario of the legendary Cannonball Run, we use a system of one to five cannonballs to rank the detectors.
4 Cannonballs
Pros: Like the Bel Pro RX-65, countless tests in countless car magazines show this unit to have virtually double the Ka band reception range of most other detectors. Also shown to have excellent capabilities weeding out the false alarms from other drivers’ radar detectors. Complete invisibility to the VG-2 Interceptor radar-detector detector. Handles the new POP mode radar guns and has the highly useful multiple threat/bogey counter. Has the useful selectable band defeat feature, too. Picks up the Safety Warning System transmitters if you can ever find one. Upgradeable software feature helps preserve your investment.
Cons: Lacks the voice alert feature of the Bel Pro RX-65, which can be a very useful feature. Lacks the Ku band reception of the RX-65, but this is really no downside if your driving is in North America. Ku band radar is currently used in Europe and may never arrive here in the U.S.
Bottom Line: If your typical driving areas have no incidence of tracking methods other than radar or laser, and you don’t feel a need for GPS capabilities, and you don’t mind giving up voice alert, the Escort 8500 X50 is an absolutely outstanding unit.
Features
- 360-degree radar and laser detection
- Advanced digital signal processing
- AutoSensitivity mode automatically
reduces false alarms
- EZ-Programming allows instant
customization
- Selectable POP mode radar detection
- 3 High-resolution meter modes
- Ultra-bright matrix display with 280
LEDs
- Brilliant blue or high-intensity red
display
- Multiple high-performance laser
sensors
- Built-in earphone jack
- Mute & AutoMute
- Completely immune to the VG-2
"detector-detector"
- One Year Limited Warranty From Escort
- One Year Ticket Guarantee Exclusively From radardetectorgeeeks.com
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