For a fee, Carfax provides history reports of used vehicles to buyers before they buy them. It's a pretty good service. But apparently it's a little too good for some. Carfax has just been hit with a $50 million lawsuit claiming they have a monopoly on vehicle history reports.

Brand new ZL1 Camaros don't usually sell at a discount, but when a Virginia Chevrolet salesman crashed a red 2012 model that had already been sold, his colleague got down to brass tacks with a Camaro fan who wasn't too concerned about fixing a $10,000-plus repair bill.

InstaVin, a new text-message-based accident-history report search system, launched last week. It offers quick information for prospective buyers at a lower cost than CarFax or other competitors. The system is temporarily free, and Jalopnik tried it out.