35d Winter Heat

[ron_jeremy]

I too would be interested to hear from our Nordic friends who have experience with BMW diesels. It is one thing to have a pre heater system, but if you are at a movie and the car is at the end of the parking lot, if you are out of range for the remote control, you could have a very cold ride home unless BMW has a system to get heat to the cabin until the engine warms up. In addition, the engine needs to be able to stay warm while driving and especially while idling. Diesels will actually cool down while at idle.

Well, living in Norway and using a BMW diesel myself, i see where your coming from.

I've a 01 530Dat right now, and this model is not very good when it comes to heating in extreme low temperatures.
But the newer BMW diesels are far better, i suggest you try one, on a really cold day, i think you'll be positive suprised reagrding heat and the enigine itself.
The engine you are talking about is very often mapped to 330hk and 730Nm.
Wait until the next version of this engine comes, it'll have 3 turbo's and even more power.
Should come first in F01 though, but later it should end up in the X6 also.