Ad: Manage updates with the Download App
  • CNET
  • All Cobra posts

Cobra

The Cobra BT 200 goes where
smartphones dare not tread

The Cobra BT 200 is a heavy-duty Bluetooth handset that features a fairly limited list of features. It connects to your phone to make calls, and that's about it. During our time with the BT 200, we encountered a few inconveniences, such no automatic contact-list importing and an unintuitive interface for advanced features like inputting numbers into the phone book.

However, when you're using a device in an outdoor environment, sometimes the strongest feature can be rugged simplicity, which the BT 200 has in spades. With its water, UV, dust, and everything else-proof design, the BT200 can take … Read more

Cobra XRS 9960G detects radar, and your location

Cobra comes up with a new concept for radar detectors--GPS that warns you of existing driving hazards. Along with its 15-band detection, Cobra's XRS 9960G correlates your current location with a database of known red-light and speed cameras, as well as potentially hazardous driving areas. In our testing, we found the system works perfectly, although its alerts come a little too frequently, especially in an urban area like San Francisco, which has plenty of red-light cameras.

Read our review of the Cobra XRS 9960G radar detector.

Cobra's 2009 detectors boast new GPS abilities

My first radar detector only had a row of green and red lights and beeped when you got close to being nailed by a radar gun--awfully quaint in comparison to all that Cobra's 2009 radar devices can do. There are six new units in the line priced from $59.95 to $339.95, but the flagship models have all the new fun-fun features.

The XRS 9960G (pictured) and the XRS R10G can be used right out of the box with a GPS locator the size of a thumbdrive that plugs into a USB port on the side of the … Read more

Ford building Mustang Cobra Jet drag variant

If there's one thing Ford Motor does well, it's cranking out variants of its modern muscle car, the Mustang. You've got the GT, GT-H, the Cobra, the GT500, the GT500KR, the Warriors in Pink edition, the California Special, the Mach 1, the Bullit, and the list goes on and on. Now Ford has yet another 'Stang variant to add to the list: the Mustang FR500CJ Cobra Jet. So, what makes the Cobra Jet different from the rest?

Named after, and inspired by, the 1968 Mustang Cobra Jet, the FR500CJ is a factory-built drag racing variant. The interior … Read more

'Smokey and the Bandit' meets Bluetooth

You've got to wonder what Burt Reynolds would think about a Bluetooth CB radio if he were still around. Oh, that's right--he is still around. Well, we're sure that old Smokey would have welcomed the new-fangled technology because he could have used it to rally other cars for the chase scenes.

Cobra Electronics has brought the iconic CB into the 21st century with a radio that can receive mobile phone calls and includes a noise-canceling microphone to boot. It's even safer to operate, at least theoretically, because it has controls that can indicate the dial's … Read more

Shelby to auction Supersnake Cobra

Automotive-design legend Carroll Shelby is putting his own 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Supersnake up on the auction block, Gizmag has noticed.

The twin-supercharged beast will be auctioned at the 36th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in Scottsdale, Ariz., this January. Shelby has said this is the fastest street-legal Ford he has ever owned, and it was once referred to by Road & Track as "the Cobra to End All Cobras," according to Barrett-Jackson.

Serial number CSX3015 has a 427 twin Paxton supercharged V8 engine (800 hp) with a 3-speed automatic transmission. It was upgraded by Shelby himself from … Read more