On Jobs-Wired magazine did a pretty good write up on his faults and strengths a few months back. I found it pretty informative.
I don't know if we'll be able to tune out the dip because for some reason this car makes a ton of down low torque for a 2.0. If the torque had just dropped off smoothly below 3k we would just think, "Oh, it's a high revving engine, you need to wind it out" but because they fiddled with it to give it nice putting around town torque everyone is "WHAAAAA TORQUE DIP!!!" instead.
Doesn't mean it's not nice to minimize it.
Nathan