I have a similar problem in my mom's X6. When pulling out onto the road, I am always scared as pressing the throttle doesn't incite a response and any more would send me rocketing into the horizon. The E53 X5 isn't much better because of the lackluster torque. DS doesn't work well for either cars because of it holding gears. Manual mode is too jerky on the X6 but decent on the X5. Only a true manual transmission would solve all these problems.

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