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Poor oil consumption is a classic Direct Injection is it not? Hence why there was a class action against Audi, but it's not just VAG cars, the R56 Mini had massive issues and BMW said 1L every 1,000 miles too.
I'm not an expert so I'm just giving my opinion, but I think a lot of people who see it as an issue (beyond the actual cost of adding oil regularly) are people who know some things about cars and have always had cars that never use oil. Now all of a sudden they've got a brand new car and it's using oil, and this is a bad sign to them, it's a new car and it shouldn't use oil, clearly something is wrong, but it's just part and parcel of direct injection. Some cars do it more and some less, and it's easy for me to kick back and have this opinion because I don't have one, but are there any knock on effects beyond the cost of the oil?