BMW Oilhead boxer motorbike engines are interesting from a running in point of view. Owners who treat them gently whilst running in, find that they generally consume oil until at least 15,000 miles as the cylinder bores have glazed over.
The advice given to me by my dealer was to run them in to 500 miles without slogging at low revs then start revving through the range to max and no use of fully synthetic oil until the first annual service. Following that advice, none of my bikes used oil.
My Audi TT, bought used with a lady first owner, drank oil. Probably treated the engine far too gently!
Interesting.... I've heard about the glazing of cylinder bores before.
I had an Aston Vanquish from new and, from memory, the ECU actually prevented harsh acceleration and set an automatic rev limit for the first few hundred miles. All programmed in by the factory.
