The V1 is worth the extra money. The location arrows and the bogey count make a HUGE difference in functionality. For some reason, most reviews only give lip service to these features, but in real life they are easily 80% of what makes the V1 the best tool for the job.

If you think about what a ticket will cost you, not just up-front costs, but the hit you will take on insurance fees for years afterwards, saving a couple of hundred bucks by going with a lesser detector is just being pennywise and pound-foolish.

I love my remote display. I use to have it right on the instrument panel but decided that having to take my eyes off the road to determine the direction of the radar source was too much of a delay. So, I pulled the circuit board out of the remote display, stuck it in a thinner casing made of half a PVC-type hose and mounted it at eye-level right off my A-pillar. I'm thinking about mounting some ribbon speakers in my A-pillars and will probably incorporate the V1 display into whatever mounting set up I come up with so that it isn't directly on the windshield. Here's a piss-poor pic I took of it a while back.