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One Lap of the Web: Gourmet cheese, ‘Gorilla Glass’ and the cost of car repair by state

We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we’re not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there’s more out there than we’d ever be able to cover, here’s our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about. -- Ford Motor Co.

Porsche Battery – a mere £1200

The rather expensive Porsche Lithium Ion Battery Car batteries have been roughly the same shape and size – and utilised basically the same lead-acid technology – for years. They’ve got better, as you no longer need to top them up with distilled water at regular intervals (I’m showing my age now), and they are less prone to going flat. But that probably has more to do with alternators replacing dynamos than the batteries themselves.

2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 unleashed at Detroit Motor Show 2014

Hoist up your Stars & Stripes and crank up your Bruce Springsteen tunes, because the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 has finally broken cover at the 2014 Detroit Motor Show. This is a Chevrolet Corvette C7 Z06 like we've never seen before. And given that Chevrolet claims it's the "most track-capable Corvette in history", you may find it hard to keep up with it, too.