Are you sure about that? Have had both (and a 3.9 V8 D1) and the difference is night and day, far smoother and much faster, with a small amount of work (EGR removal takes about an hour) they are really much better than the old Tdi
No, but BMW can! There are a few things you can't do yourself, but that are cheap enough to have done, you just need to find your local independant LR fella and nothing is particularly expensive on them, some parts are actually cheaper from LR now than a breakers.
Yep, Japs are great ......... until they're not, have you seen the loooooooong list