Mini-Rant:

Consumer Guide is a rip-off.

They exist solely to capitalize on people confusing them with Consumer Reports (just like you did). CG sells their endorsements - particularly for cars - you see them all the time on certain (usually domestic brand) car commercials "Rated a Consumer's Guide Best Buy!!"

My wife's 1st year Neon had one of those endorsements and it was a piece of shit.

Consumer Reports never takes money from any company for anything. They do everything they can to avoid even the chance of companies biasing their reviews. They actively prosecute companies that try to use a good rating from CR to promote their products. They always outright buy anything they evaluate and they make those purchases through "average joes" so the seller doesn't even know that it is headed for a review (and so can't cherry-pick or otherwise provide better-than-average quality units for the review).

Anytime I see a Consumer's Guide endorsement for a product that I am thinking about buying, that brand goes to the bottom of my list (if not completely crossed off).