I have the 3.0l in two different cars, both 2003 and neither uses a drop. I drive mixed local and highway but have taken both on long drives and nary a drop used.

I always consider oil use a warning sign that something is amiss. To fix oil use problems is, and always will be, an expensive proposition so manufacturers and dealers will always hesitate to go that route and go the sheaper way of just adding oil when you are low.