The paint on this car isn't much stronger than wet clay!

Brand new car bought in Feb 2018. The day we picked it up, it was snowing. It snowed off and on for several days, and the hood got a couple inches accumulation on it. I started the car and let it warm up, wiped the snow off the hood and glass, and the first time it was dry, I could see scratches on the hood down into the primer from the path taken by the snow sliding off the hood. Several parallel scratches. Caused by snow. SNOW!!!

This is insane. Snow scratched the paint.

The paint has since accumulated 20-30 scratches, all from light contact during normal use. This isn't from an accident, vandals, or parking lot door dings... It's from snow and ice, one from a piece of dried mud that bounced off another vehicle and struck the left front fender... I'm talking about a piece of mud the size of a 50 cent piece and it left bare metal showing... one time a piece of straw dragged along the side of it and scratched it.

Now I know why at purchase they tried to sell me a protective coating on the paint, at a cost of $1000. Told me the paint was no longer allowed to be oil-based because of b.s. environmental laws, and was a water-based paint. I looked into that protective coating and found out it was just wax... not clear-coat paint, so I declined. I'm not paying a thousand dollars for someone to wax my car. So they knew it was crap paint. Subaru is obviously not what it once was. Crappy paint. Crappy axles. And I hear they have major issues with their CV transmissions.