I know exactly what you mean. I had a D4 3.0TDI for a couple of months, it was a lovely car and, being new, felt much more luxurious compared to my D2. However there was no acceleration from standstill without really putting your foot to the floor, and then it still lagged. Reverse was even worse, it didn't want to move backwards unless you prodded the pedal with enough force.
Even my wife complained about the lack of progress the D4 made!
The stop/start made pulling out junctions a planned exercise, unless you had remembered to switch it off, which I often did in stop/start traffic.
Getting back in the D2 was such a good feeling, even if it's not quite a refined, maybe that's part of it...
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Cars...
'93 Audi Coupe 2.0 Alpine White (sold)
'99 Audi S4 Merlin Purple - K04 upgrade to 412hp (sold)
'00 Audi S8 Agate Grey (Sold
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'11 Audi Q7 4.2tdi Unknown Red (Classic Red Pearl Effect - thanks MJ)
