Consumer Guide Products® Buying Guides and Awards

Consumer Guide's free Buying Guides help you shop with confidence, armed with the information you need to make a smart buying decision. Consumer Guide's experts and editors have assembled comprehensive Buying Guides on a wide variety of product categories. Each Buying Guide gives you an unbiased, in-depth look at what you should know when considering a purchase.

Consumer Guide's Buying Guides:

  • Define the terms you need to know
  • Give you advice on where to shop
  • Identify category trends
  • Help you determine what features or attributes are important to you
  • Analyze which products are appropriate for different types of consumers

Consumer Guide is a trusted resource helping smart consumers make buying decisions with confidence. The company has published books and magazines, written by Experts, on automobiles and consumer products for more than 30 years. Each year, millions of people use our reviews to make decisions about which products or vehicles to buy. They trust Consumer Guide to help them sort out fact from fiction, to help them identify the important features and accurate prices. Consumer Guide has teams of experts and editors who review thousands of products and every new car each year.


CG Best Buy
The products that our experts most strongly recommend receive the prestigious Consumer Guide Best Buy Award. When a product has a Best Buy designation, you'll know it's the best value available at a reasonable price.


CG Recommended
Products and vehicles rated Recommended are good products that, for one reason or another, have not measured up to our Best Buy standard for excellence. These products or vehicles might have a high price or limited appeal. Or they may be so new on the market that we haven't yet been able to test their performance and durability sufficiently.


CG Budget Buy
Products that receive the Consumer Guide Budget Buy Award are quality products available at inexpensive prices. Budget Buy products are well constructed and perform suitably, but they may have fewer standard features than Best Buy models.