Front looks good but the rear looks a bit stumpy. Though I guess if it was any longer it would be a 3 Series Coupe 4 Series.
Edit: Having seen the rest of the pics the rear doesn't look too bad.

Looks like someone took a hot air gun to a 1 series coupe and melted it. Not quite as revolting as some of their previous efforts, but still a very long way from an attractive car.

It looks like every other BMW

This "brand identity" homogenisation thing really is a scourge in my opinion. They should stop giving their cars different names, numbers, etc and just sell small/medium/large

An M2 would be very desirable.

Pffft. I liked it well enough to run one for a couple of years, but that's just silly.

Quite like that, just changed cars and was tempted with an F30 3-series at the time, but would have preferred something slightly more compact and this could have fit the bill nicely.
As I’m not a fan of the new 1-series hatch and felt the 1-series coupe to a bit dated for a new purchase now I went elsewhere.
However had this been available at the time it would have been very seriously considered.
To my mind, aesthetically that’s a big improvement on the rather marmite 1-series on which it’s based and I will certainly be having a good look at it when I next change.

Does this replace the 1-series coupé then?

The e9x 3 series is their blandest ugliest creation for a while along with the x1 so in that sense i agree

Best looking BMWs have to be the Z3M breadvan, the original Z4, the e39 5 series, the e30....

Let's face it, BMW have never been very good at getting the styling right when they hack the back off their cars.

Or when they simply inflate them into a GT.

Hopefully It won't be too big-a price jump over the 1 series hatch. An M235i would be a lovely car! I'd imagine the residuals would be pretty good too looking by what the 135i has depreciated by.