My pregnant wife also hated my 05 S4 sedan. The brutal handling and acceleration were apparently not fun for someone toting a bowling ball around in their abdomen.

New Jalopnik here. I owned one of these (and currently own a 2013), an 05 sedan with the manual. Living in downtown San Francisco, you didn’t really need six gears - two would do. Acceleration was...formidable. My only peeve with it was the fuel consumption. After my son was born, we found out the best and pretty…