Loss of engine oil

Hi
I'm new to the forum and wanted to know if anyone else has experienced a significant drop in engine oil level without any apparent outward signs (blowing smoke, oil on engine block etc.). I own a 2012 Accord Euro (manual) and have experienced the oil loss between 6 monthly services. Is this normal?

When I used to sell motorcycles for a living, we'd regularly see new bikes that drank like fish.
Always old boys who had been very gentile with running them in. They'd glaze the bores and not seat the rings properly. They'd then suck oil past the rings and burn a litre every 1000miles.

If your car never got leant on when it was new, this could well be the case.
The wife's civic was a low miler when we bought it and has always used more oil than I liked. Never been a problem in the 90k she's put on it, but I do have to keep an eye on the oil level.

I typically add somewhere around a litre and a half between oil changes (every 6k)

Many thanks for your observations. I have owned the car from new and was under the impression that I had to be 'gentle' during the running-in process, so I didn't rev it too much! This could well explain why it loses oil without any obvious tell-tale signs. I shall certainly keep a closer eye on the oil level in future.

When running in, revs are bad, but even worse is a constant throttle.
The engine needs to be loaded through acceleration and deceleration to seat the components, particularly the rings to the bores.

Unfortunately customers don't have this explained to them at vehicle handover, they're just told to keep it under 3 grand or whatever for a thousand miles.

The over-use of oil has never presented an issue with our civic (now on 115k miles)

When I used to run in the bikes for our demo fleet at work, the throttle got a workout, but I'd keep the max revs below 50% for the first couple of hundred miles.

The NSW cops are hot on speed, go out in the dark they are in bed then. LOL, BUT THOSE HIDDEN CAMERAS will still get you.