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Dan Neil, car critic at The Wall Street Journal and The Car Show presenter, is pretty smitten with the [BMW 1 Series M Coupe](http://www.autoblog.com/bmw/1 series m coupe), at least on most fronts. As a devotee of the E36 M3, Neil is happy to see that the fairly lightweight coupe comes with an honest inline six-cylinder engine under the hood, even with its forced-induction shenanigans. And the six-speed manual transmission with its excellent clutch and solid shifter apparently warranted spilling some ink over as well, but not all is right in the land of baby M models. According to Neil, the 1 Series M Coupe is “one of the ugliest, most disturbingly wrong car designs in modern history.”
As the locals are fond of saying; them’s some strong words. We won’t be caught leaping to the defense of the vehicle’s aesthetics, but we will say Neil comes down a bit hard on the smallest of the M clan. Sure the car isn’t the prettiest belle at the heel-toe squaredance, but ugliest of them all? That’s a big stretch. We would carefully point Neil’s attention toward the likes of the the Dodge Caliber, just about any crossover from SsangYong or even the hideous of all hideousness, the [Pontiac Aztek](http://www.autoblog.com/tag/pontiac aztek) as contenders for that title. What do you think?
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Dan Neil calls BMW 1M Coupe ugly… is he right? [w/poll] originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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