The turbocharged diesel has surprising pep, enough that you'd not suspect it's rated just 61 horsepower, but the gearbox follies mask the power in the name of fuel husbandry. Also, to squeeze out a bit more economy, the engine unhooks and allows the front driving wheels to coast, or free-wheel, when you let off the gas pedal. Without an engine-braking effect, you sail up alarmingly fast on the car ahead or the inattentive pedestrian. That saves fuel at long red lights and during gridlock. Lift off the brake pedal and the starter cranks the engine up.
Revivification happens quickly.
But the transmission again delays matters. It takes maddening moments before the gearbox is fully engaged and the car will accelerate strongly. You jam the throttle harder. Then the whole shebang hooks up and, screech, the torque-rich diesel engine tries to turn the skinny front tires into smoking shreds of rubber. You can bypass the most-damnable behavior two ways.