[net.auto] Cheap radar detector info request

mzal@pegasus.UUCP (Mike Zaleski) (03/10/85)

[ 186,000 MPS - a law we can live with. ]

I am considering buying a cheap (less than $100) radar detector
as a birthday gift for an ex-girlfriend.  In looking at this
month's Road&Track, I saw an ad advertising these models:
Fox XK visor mount for $85 and Fuzzbuster Elite II for $80.

1. Does anyone have any experience with these models?

2. Does anyone have any other suggestions for decent radar
   detectors in the less than $100 price range?

3. Does anyone have any pointers to recent tests in Car&Driver,
   Road&Track, Consumer Reports :-), or any other reasonable
   source?  (Yes, I saw the article in the March issue of
   Car&Driver, but am not interested in remote systems.  They
   are too expensive and, for my friend's needs, too much of a
   hassle.)

Reply to me please and I promise to summarize.  And thanks!

-- Mike^Z   Zaleski@Rutgers.Arpa   [ allegra!, ihnp4! ] pegasus!mzal

williams@rduxb.UUCP (WILLIAMS) (03/11/85)

> [ 186,000 MPS - a law we can live with. ]
> 
> I am considering buying a cheap (less than $100) radar detector
> as a birthday gift for an ex-girlfriend...

	Make up a box with a few lights, bells and whistles. Tell
her it's the best one going. ("Don't worry, just keep it at a steady
85 over the bypass dearie. It's the latest with the hyperbolic
paraboloid pick-up antenna. It'll pick up anything.")

	She should get a ticket - a real big, fat, expen$ive one -
in no time. Then sit back and laugh! 

	You did say EX-girlfriend, didn't you?  :-)

					Doug Williams
					AT&T Bell Labs
					Reading, PA
					rduxb!williams