Unlikely to find a new car without a calling home function.
Definitely not one with car play.
Best you can do is find the cell antenna port and put an RF sink on it (they're used for testing radio output).
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Tell me more about this rf sink
The technical term is "dummy load", most antennas are around 50ohm "impedance" which in an incredibly roundabout way means the antenna is indistinguishable from a 50ohm resistor at whatever frequency it's tuned to....which means you can replace the antenna with a 50ohm resistor.
This all assumes you care about leaving the radio functional (radio amplifiers will burn up if they can't dissipate the energy they're creating) and in most cases it's probably fine to just cut the trace as close to the source chip as possible. That said, if the system is especially evil and well engineered it'll throw errors in some cases so better to leave everything functional but unable to hear or transmit.
A lot of vehicles prior to 2005 will not have a black box that records everything (and for which you will not have the encryption key for), nor will it phone home in any capacity.
Pretty much 100% of vehicles prior to 1995 will definitely lack these features.
If you want a vehicle that you control 100%, get a vintage vehicle.
Android Auto is Google. Google and privacy go together good (no).
I think if you remove internet connection from the car and use it with a phone with graphene os is it would be OK but I could be wrong.
Actually I was kinda joking. I use Android Auto, it is good and totally worth it. Of course if you are not paranoid, lol.
Just buy a used car. Look for low KM and good climate rating.
Why care for privacy when in the end your using android auto or apple play?
And a home assistant breaks the point even further.
Not a home assistant. Home Assistant™, the open source privacy focused home automation system.
As I said, it is for a family member. I agree about buying used.
I think android auto can be reasonably private with Graphene OS's implementation.
I don't know what you are saying about Home Assistant.
Edit: Home Assistant
sorry. Didnt know what home assistant was.
Privacy and cars are mutually exclusive. If you want privacy use public transport and pay in cash. With cars you have licence plate scanner, cameras and tollbooths everywhere (no to mention that most people drive with their phones on them). "They" will know where were you driving no matter what car you use. The question really is what data are you trying to hide and from who? The obvious thing to do is not to give your data to advertisers. Selling you shit is the whole point of most of the data collection. Just get extra phone and use some fake google account for android auto and you should be fine here. As for car companies all they will gather is some generic data about your driving habits but guess what? Everyone knows this already because driving is not private (again, if you want to hide this use public transport). So yeah, it would be nice for car companies to be more transparent about the data they gather and how they use it but it's really not a big issue. If you're paranoid about it then don't drive. If you're driving the data your car is leaking though analytics is not your biggest problem.
Maybe they really want or need a car? They asked for the best car not for the most privacy friendly option in the world.
You don't have to go out and live on a farm in the mountains just because you care about privacy. There are degrees of privacy.