The STi isn’t a hatch. You could have at least compared it to a Focus RS / Golf R.

In this case though we don’t want to stop though, right? We just need to get under the speed limit, or at least under the threshold for “criminal speed” which I assume is Maine’s version of what most of us call reckless driving. Even if you can just achieve that, the detector has probably paid for itself.

Yes, simply buying a car that belongs to a less common segment does not qualify as “funky and different.” If it did then he could just get a Nissan Versa hatch for $15k and call it a day.

LOL, if you are driving 146mph and a cop tags you with an “instant on” radar or a laser

“I don’t know Maine traffic law.”

Even if he just slowed down enough to be charged with simple speeding, a radar detector would have paid for itself in lower fines and insurance rates.

Except we don’t know for a fact that they were using a radar or LIDAR gun. It’s not at all unlikely that they were using passive radar mounted on the top of the cruiser.

What’s your source? The standard of evidence for wreckless driving is much higher than that of speeding.

I don’t disagree with you, I only take issue with some other commenters who are spreading bad information.

I don’t have that issue, even in heavy traffic. High-end detectors can filter out false positives based on band and signal strength.

You’re assuming they’re using a gun at all, and not passive radar mounted on top of the vehicle which in my experience is much more common and also much easier to detect.

From the article it sounded like it was called in by a citizen.

Mine is 15 years old and false positives haven’t been an issue.

But it’s not true. Radar detector hasn’t changed hardly at all over the last three decades.

Waze only knows about speed traps, and even then only some of them. It won’t warn you about cops actively roaming around with their radar on.

I’m not sure where you’re getting your information from, but radar technology hasn’t changed hardly at all over the last 30 years. They’re still quite effective except with laser, which requires the the cop to be stationary and the laser gun to be outside the car pointed directly at your vehicle. And that was just as…

Even with a 15 year old V1 I rarely have false positives. It’s pretty good at filtering them out.

Sure there is. Higher end detectors give you quite a bit of warning. At the very least he could have slowed down and gotten a lesser penalty.

Why would you say that?

But even if we assume that GTIs are fairly rare where he lives, I don’t feel like it would stand out that much.