Good website or other source for rating of clothes washing machines?

Question

I want to buy a good washer & spend about $500.00.

Answer 1

get a top loader, that's a large capacity,
you may not need it now but later on you will wish you did, side door washers have a lot of problems, and so do the digital read out ones, so stick with the dial knob ones, [will out last the electronic ones]
have worked on a lot of them,

Answer 2

Try epinions.com

Ordinary people rate all kinds of products, incuding washers. I refer to it quite often before making major or even semi-major purchases.