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"19.21 per cent of male members who admitted to be unfaithful were BMW owners."
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Neil Dowling

Contributing Journalist

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Under the heading of Stuff We Don't Need To Know But Will Read Anyway comes a survey from UK-based dating website NineMSN's "Illicit Encounters'' that says if you own a BMW, you are more likely to have an extra-marital affair.

Illicit Encounters spokesperson Rosie Freeman-Jones says "there's an intrinsic link between success and cheating''.

"Successful people are often risk-takers, and have got to where they are by setting their standards high,'' she says. "However, these people are also less likely to settle for unsatisfying relationships or monotony.''

The survey claims to have polled its 640,000 (which seems an incredible amount) members and found that 19.21 per cent of male members who admitted to be unfaithful were BMW owners.

Audi came in second as the choice of car for the wandering husbands with 8.79 per cent, then Mercedes with 8.23 per cent, Jaguar (6.59%) and Land Rover (4.94%). But it's not all about the blokes.

Cheating wives also prefer BMWs with a score of 11.16 per cent of the site's female respondents. The car owners least likely to have an affair drive a Renault (0.28 per cent), Fiat and Chrysler (0.55 per cent each). Or drivers of these cars don't visit a dating site.

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Neil Dowling

Contributing Journalist

GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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