Quickshifter: Ashley Madison and the fantasy life - Wheels Magazine
Most viewed features of the week from the Wheels Magazine website. SO A WEBSITE purporting to connect lonely married men with naughty married women is looking more and more like a site that connected men with their fantasies – and just about nothing else – for a fee. In fact, it might be argued that it follows the model Wheels adopted in 1953. You could bolster that argument with the most popular story on wheelsmag. au this week, which revealed that HSV was developing a Commodore based road car with no fewer than 476kW. If they build it, they will make only 100 – which makes it a car that most people will drive only in daydreams. The fantasies Wheels staff share are their own. The second most viewed piece this week leaves no room for doubt about that. A turbocharged 2015 BMW M4 is compared with a naturally aspirated 2003 M3 CSL in an eight-minute video, shot on country roads, a race circuit and a car park or two. But from the first few seconds it is also clear that Road-test Editor Nathan Ponchard and News Editor Alex Inwood are deeply engaged in the story. “Awesome video,” responded one viewer on an online BMW forum. Which raises a second key distinction for the Wheels business model: we will burst your balloon if we think it’s for your own good. Source: www.wheelsmag.com.au
