i understand what you mean
i understand what you mean about how great the car drives. When I was buying, I had to have all wheel drive and a manual transmission. Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4 only offered automatic CVT trans. Even outback didn't offer manual trans. I've resigned myself to topping and checking oil for the life of the car. Not the end of the world I guess. Most of the experimental fixes out there short block rings blah blah nine out of ten times makes things as bad or worse. Subaru has had this oil consumption problem for a few years so does Mercedes and they haven't found a fix.I've heard the synthetic oil is too thin but they use it to increase milage these cars use oil from the tech guys. I'd rather trust the robots who built my 2015 manual trans Forrester (one step above base with moon roof and ass warmer) and keep it in one piece unless I get desperate. I love driving it!!