>Why do you need the VIN and why can’t I just enter the make and model?

>By asking for the VIN upfront we can both deliver better quality information and make it easier for you to act on it. There is a reason why you can’t get an insurance quote, a vehicle valuation, or a vehicle history report without entering a VIN. Similarly, we decode that VIN beyond its make, model, and year: the VIN helps us understand what features and technologies may be present in your vehicle (increasing the accuracy of our Vehicle Privacy Labels) and being off by just one digit would provide wrong results in our Vehicle Privacy History.

>Many visitors of our website also choose to take advantage of the many free protections we offer (e.g. requesting that your auto insurance and auto finance companies protect the data in your car in various scenarios). None of those companies would be able to do anything to improve your data privacy and security if they could not confirm your VIN.

Also first thing I see is this.

> Most websites, including this one, detect your IP address from which we infer your possible ZIP code,

It choked because I don't run js and route through Tor

Site is a just another data harvesting scam with "privacy" in the name to lure in suckers.