I do understand that the diesel is quite a bit more sluggish as it seems that most of my vehicles are diesels in fact you might even say that I have an illness (my wife does), as currently I have 6 diesel vehicles running around my house. But this one seems to be unusually unresponsive in the lower end. Even my 2 vw jetta tds, and my 1980 td wagon (na). are much quicker. Even in nuetral it seems to be real hesitant to come up on the RPMs. It is not even possible to spin the tires in my gravel driveway.