Dash Cams

Adding up all of the sub scores for daytime image quality, nighttime image quality, parking modes, form factor, and price vs performance, the results are pretty conclusive with the Viofo A329S in first place, with its only downside being its $373 price tag.

If your budget is under $100 and you’re okay with just a front facing dash cam, the Viofo A119 Mini 2 is miles ahead of other cameras in the price range and came in second overall with good single channel image quality, great parking performance, great form factor, and a low price.

The Thinkware ARC700 came in 3rd place with surprisingly good image quality given its older STARVIS 1 image sensor and surprisingly efficient motion-based parking performance given its lack of a separate mmWave motion sensor, so hats off to the Thinkware engineers for squeezing every last drop of performance out of the ARC700’s hardware.

The Vantrue N4 Pro S remains the king of nighttime video quality but even though it’s impact based parking mode has been slightly improved compared to the previous N4 Pro, it still takes a considerable amount of time after an event to start recording. So, if parking modes aren’t that important to you and the new and unique features like the waterproof rear camera and optional LTE module would be useful for your setup then the Vantrue is definitely still worth considering.