When buying products online, it’s usually a good strategy to look for the best-selling items that fit your criteria. After all, they’re usually the best-selling for a reason.

Amazon, being the juggernaut of eCommerce as it is (but not always the best place to buy car parts), tends to be the perfect website for this type of research. I wanted to know the most popular radar detectors on the market (and why they’re popular), so I headed over to Amazon’s best sellers page.

But as you may know, we’re not big fans of Amazon over here, so instead of just linking you to Amazon and calling it a day, we dug in a little deeper to find out the best place to buy these popular radar detectors. But don’t worry, we’ll include the Amazon links too, for you 2-day-shipping-Prime-addicts.
Let’s dive in.

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#1: Cobra RAD 480i

This one comes as absolutely no surprise. The Cobra RAD 480i won our #1 top spot for the best radar detectors under $200.

Why is it a Best-Seller"

At only $149 or so, it’s super affordable and has nearly as many features as some of the units costing over twice as much. It detects radar and laser from both the front and rear, has surprisingly long-range detection, false alert filtering, comes with the helpful Cobra iRadar App (kinda like Waze), and has earlier detection than many ...