Has anyone noticed their gladiator burning oil

[Geoarch]

1/4 quart at 3K miles is really not much. I have owned a handful of Pentastar vehicles and they really do not fully settle in until around the 10K mile mark.

Good to know.

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[Geoarch]

Engines will consume SOME oil. It's nearly impossible to have a cylinder wall lined with a thin film of oil, and have rings simply glide over the top of that film, never pushing any upward, and never having any pulled in via the lower pressure of the intake stroke.

That being said, we've never had a Pentastar engine that required any oil between changes, and both of my JTs would go between changes and still read at the top of the normal range.
My 2022 has over 6,000 miles on it now, much of that a trip to FL and back (with my wife driving - it saw a lot of high mph and high rpm use).
It was changed before the trip at 2,000 miles as I wanted to be really sure..... and have things looked over before leaving.
I checked the oil yesterday while doing the electric work for the under-hood 12v outlet and considering 4,000 miles on this oil, it's still "full". What it needs could be measured in my wife's kitchen measuring cups - the fractional cup measuring cups. It might be 4 or so ounces low.

My experience with the 2020 was that it didn't really come alive and get its best mpg until after about 7,000 miles, so that lines up with hootbro's comments.
And frankly, most of the new vehicles I've owned, I could tell things were different as they approached the 10,000 mark. My new AMX way back when - 10,000 miles and it was very different - more peppy, better mpg and so on.

1/4 quart at 3,000 miles is nothing. Even some of the high end auto makers won't talk to you about oil consumption unless it's over a quart in what, 2,000 miles?

So my 2022 is good. You’re just luckier than me.