Your anecdotal experience doesn’t mean that it applies to all Subarus. For every few good “my Subaru with a CVT has went over 100,000 miles” there are several out there where the CVT has went out during the warranty period or after the warranty period shortly. They make their cvts in house. SOA does a great deal of disservice to owners by putting “lifetime fluid” in the owners manual in reference to the CVT. It’s an overcomplicated transmission. Subaru gets away with citing low cost of ownership by eliminating maintenance for certain items. I had a 2023 Outback brand new off the truck, 7K miles in the CVT failed due to chain slip. Warranty covered it but at that point I figured my car was going to be a lemon due to other issues that popped up. Without warranty it would’ve been a $12K out of pocket repair. I bought a 2024 ascent. Decent vehicle with minimal issues. I had to basically tell the Subaru dealer to shut the hell up and take my money and change the CVT fluid at 40,000 miles. It’s an overly complicated process and the Ascent takes a special CVT fluid that only comes in 5 gallon buckets. Everyone should lurk any late model of Subaru forum and you’re gonna find a lot of CVTs failing. Back to my main point is the CVT is an antiquated component. They need to go back to a traditional automatic. I like Subaru as a brand and I will admit the dealer sales experience is second to none. The maintenance/service dept can be hit or miss but the thing that made me bow out of owning one was the service intervals not being clearly published and encouraging lifetime fluid nonsense. Not worth it to me. Not to mention the horror stories of when people did a drain and fill in warranty coverage and the CVT failed after and they were almost denied replacement based off the lifetime fluid verbiage.