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SEMA 2025 - Escort Radar Detectors and Meguiar’s Car Care

CarCast

Bleav + Carolla Digital

Comedy, National, Lifestyle, Business, Sales, Automotive, Leisure

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Day two of the SEMA show and Matt sits down with Joe Sherbondy, Director of Radar Detection Products at Cedar Electronics, maker of Escort and Cobra radar detectors. Then we speak with Mike Pennington, Sr. Manager of Global Training, Events and Consumer Relations at Meguiar’s. Presented by DrinkBravago.com

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0:00.0

Okay, here we are again, back at SEMA, as you guys can imagine.

0:10.0

We've got a lot of interviews lined up.

0:12.0

We're in another booth. We're here at the escort radar detectors, but there's more to that than just escort radar detectors.

0:20.0

Why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself and explain what it is, where we are and what you do?

0:25.5

Well, Matt, thank you for having me on the show.

0:27.7

I appreciate it.

0:28.9

So this is the Cedar Electronics booth has a couple of brands.

0:33.5

We're Cobra and we're escort.

0:35.5

So on the cobra side, we have two-way radios, dash cameras,

0:39.0

and on the escort side, radar detectors and dash cameras.

0:42.4

Okay.

0:43.0

So my name is Joe Shabondi, and I'm the director for the radar category.

0:47.7

So I do the product development for all of our radar detectors

0:50.2

for both brands for the Cobra and the escort product lines.

0:53.5

And we're here standing next to the Escort radar detectors.

0:57.5

And it's, I guess just kind of thinking in general, it's like radar detectors seem like been around for a long time.

1:05.8

Always just sort of like looked at the little ads at the back of the magazine going here's the radar detector

1:11.3

and here's the bra that hides the you know the the signal from the radar detector going from

1:17.6

like back then to today how are has how are things evolved technology's gotten better but more

1:25.4

complicated on both sides right like on the detecting side and on, I guess, the police side.

1:33.3

You know, it's as relevant today as it was 20, 30 years ago when Fuzz Busters came out.

1:40.3

You know, we have definitely a long history with this.

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