[ryanroo]

there is a fair aftermarket and performance bmw crowd, but i dont know how much tweaking is going on with the diesels.

also, anything with that pretty blue and white emblem does mean a wallet will be getting lighter.

my concern with trying to swap the drivetrain from one of those would be the transmission. you can hang an engine in a frame pretty easy, but i dont know how the trans would work. the X series suvs are AWD and i think it may be all integrated. i dont know enough of the bmw stuff to know what solutions there are or are not for that family of engines. could be a completely normal trans from some other application could work. i would do a whole boatload of looking and reading before i dropped any cash.

i have also never driven the diesel but BMW is known for torque. i bet it would push around a fairly light older truck in a pretty fun way.