1 quart per 1000 miles is outrageous in a new car. Performance oriented or not. Really, having to add any oil to a new car is pretty far out there. Maybe if I had a limited run, ultra high performance engine I'd say otherwise, but no run of the mill Subaru, Audi, or BMW should require top-ups.
“Oil consumption is normal on all engines,” BMW spokesman Hector Arellano-Belloc said in an e-mailed statement. “BMW vehicles have long intervals between oil changes (10,000 miles). BMW engines (excluding the BMW M) may consume up to one quart of engine oil per 750 miles under certain driving conditions.” He added that BMW’s M performance models may consume even more oil than that.
I concur that some oil consumption is normal...a quart per 750 miles...or more?!