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Figure I'd add in here. My mom has a 2012 Impreza Sport. We commute together and have mostly been using her car. It's got 76k on it. The only issues I had with it were when first started, running the A/C and stopped at a light it would drop RPMs, shutter and then go back to normal. Once it was warmed up it was fine. Mostly driven in stop and go traffic with sometimes of getting up to normal freeway speed and mixed back road/winding road driving when avoiding the congestion on the freeway. Last week I heard a faint humming noise. I could only hear it when the radio and fan were off and only for a short time before road noise would drown it out. Figuring it was wheel bearing I thought, no big deal. The next day my mom drove it to work and said the humming was much louder and could be heard even with the radio on. Went into the dealership yesterday, they came back with Transmission. So chalk another failure on a CVT. Fluid has never been drained. The tech told her it was covered by warranty 5 years or 100,000, but Subaru's website says 5 yrs 60k on powertrain. They were submitting it to SOA so we'll wait and see. The car has had an oil consumption issue since new. It will never make 7500 miles without adding oil. It can generally make 5000 and then it needs to be done right away. Forgot to mention, the tech at Subaru said this is the first Impreza they had come in with a bad CVT, mostly Legacy's, Outbacks and Foresters.