[rsync]

"I didn't realize these modern diesels still sound terrible, are they really that bad?"

You know the somewhat recent Jetta TDI (2.0 ? 1.8 ?) that's really, really loud ? They're not quite that bad. But they're loud, and the loud they make is an antique loud. A non-precision loud. Noises that nice new luxury cars shouldn't make.

I am in europe regularly for rsync.net and the diesel A6 and A8 (among others) are not any better.

It's really just a terrible aesthetic. I don't know why people put up with it.