I’ve been so anxious to drive with the latest production version of Escort Passport 9500i, that when I received one this past Friday, I couldn’t wait to start putting some serious miles on it so I took my wife (aka Veil Gal) on a two day driving circuit that included PA, NJ, and DE. All …
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Mar 23
Production Escort Passport 9500i Received
We are please to report that we have received a current production model of the newest and high-tech radar detector from Escort. The Passport 9500i arrived today and after a brief spin around town, it appears that the early X and K-band reception/ramp-up idiosyncrasies have not been excised. We will be taking our new 9500i …
Jan 30
Escort Passport 9500i Review
Our review/preview of the upcoming Escort Passport 9500i is now available for your reading pleasure. This new and innovative radar detector should become generally available in the Feb/March ’06 time frame. Veil Guy
Jan 24
Escort ‘s New Passport 9500i
While Beltronics has improved their product line-up with the STi Driver, its sister company Escort hasn’t been standing pat with their 8500 X50. We have managed to get our hands on a pre-production model of the soon-to-be released Escort Passport 9500i. This model incorporates GPS technology to provide a host of capabilities that no other …
May 17
Bel STI driver radar detector production to soon go up
Beltronics has indicated to us that the daily production level output of the their hand-assembled STI driver radar detector is slated to double by mid June 2006. For those of you who are waiting for an STI driver, this is promising news as back-order levels have been fairly signficant and new units have been slow …
May 12
New Radar Detector Comparison Coming
With our annual appearance at SpeedZones rapidly approaching (last week of June) we have procured an arrest-me-red 2006 C6 corvette convertible for this year’s western route of our radar detector review. This year we are expecting to compare: The latest versions of the best radar detectors currently being produced: Beltronics RX-65 Pro, Beltronics STI Driver, …
May 12
Police Laser sales up a brisk 76% for 2006 over previous year
2006 is turning out to be a very strong year for police laser. According to a source close to the acquisition process of traffic monitoring departments around the country and abroad, sales of police laser is growing at an ever-increasing rate. This is likely due to the following key factors: 1) Older police radar guns …
May 08
A New Reason to Mount the Valentine 1 Low
I was drving on the PA NorthEast extension and Interstate 80 on a two and half hour drive tonight and during the drive devised a new (and I believe) better way to drive with my trusted friend, the V1. I mounted the radar detector low-midway on the windshield left of center and in clear view …
Apr 14
Good Friday to everyone
Hard to believe that Easter is already upon us…time is flying. I had an interesting conversation with Craig Peterson today of Peterson Publishing. For those of you who don’t already know it, I am a huge fan of Craig’s literary work…He has a natural talent for writing stories that are not only fun to read …
Apr 12
What’s exciting & new with police laser (LIDAR)
New Police Laser/LIDAR is Coming to a Road New You It’s nice that mild weather is finally upon us…although I have no complaints about the “warm” winter we just had. Now that we are approaching the “drop-top” season, it’s good to know what new forms of threats we will all be facing this driving season: …
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