My car is 18 years old and has no tracking. I can still get GPS on my phone, although as indicated your phone can be tracked.
If you put your phone in airplane mode, GPS will still work, but the phone won’t be trackable since it’s not sending anything (I’m pretty sure). If you do that, you’ll want to download the map for the area first.
Just to clarify, not only is is possible, but afaik, you can not buy a new car that will track you, at least not how OnStar did.
When you download the map of the area, google knows you downloaded the map of the area.
If there is any internet connectivity…. It can be tracked.
True, but I think there’s a big difference between knowing that you were at a specific location at a specific time on a specific date, compared to knowing that you might be within a 50 mile radius at some indeterminate date in the future.