I now own both... Just received my 8500 today... Haven't used it yet.

I have 2 vehicles and wanted to test-drive the 8500 to compare for myself-- but I'm wondering if anyone else has tried both and what your thoughts were?

-- Aaron

 

Initial Thouhts: The Escort is reallllly cool with its interface and programability... mind you, the V1 is also programmable. Aesthetically, the 8500 is beautiful-- far superiour to the V1.

I've come to trust my V1, and its no slouch on performance. Time will tell on the 8500.

-- Aaron

 

Keep us posted on your thoughts.

 

First Impressions after using it for the first time today:


WOW! This thing rocks. I turned off X-Band for city mode-- I didn't get one false alarm (no X band is used here). The programability is soooo freaking easy.

More to come, but so far, this is much more friendly than my V1. Time will tell as far as detection goes.

-- Aaron

 

Please update us often.. I want to know from first hand experience which one is better. Thanks

 

Hey, I am really interested in this comparision! Let us know how these two RD compare. By the way, what city are you in that doesn't use X band?

 

Moving this to Electronics

 

Aaron convinced me on the Passport and as you can see by my other post, I got one for $284.99 at Best Buy.

Kirk

 

I bought the Passport at Ultimate Electronics for $269.99.
I know several people with the V1 so I'll try to do a side to side comparison.