^^ I agree. You expect your new car to work, your washer to produce clean clothes, your milk not to be sour. This shipping of skis not ready to ski bugs me. Fine, there's the 5% of the ski population who are going to change the skis anyway, just like all these folks who can't wait to change their new car, but most expect the product to work as advertised.
Tough to generalize..mine doesn't consume a drop...BMW on the other hand...
No generalizing about it. The non-turbo motors open deck design leads to head gasket failure sometime between 120k and 150k on every 2.5l Subaru. The turbo motor has a different deck and gasket configuration and doesn't suffer the same shortcoming. Subaru even has released a additive like bars leaks as an official fix.
Our 2012 uses nearly two quarts of oil every 6000 miles, insane. Two friends of ours sold or traded theirs in for the same reason, and their cars burned even more, one had his for less than two years. There is also a standing class action lawsuit for it, unfortunately we are beyond the 100k mile limit.
Aside from the radio wiring shorts, the three sets of idler pulleys and three belts by 80k, replacing every brake caliper by 90k, the stock battery puking before it was even two years old and that sweet smell and antifreeze slipping past the head gaskets now at 120k, we'll it's been a great car.
It's too bad, I like the ground clearance, and the AWD system is decent, but the quality of the modern Subaru is trash compared to my Toyota/GM hybrid that's eight years older.