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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 Escort 8500 X50 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, an absolutely outstanding unit.
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