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Toyota's luxury brand Lexus is a step closer to introducing a full-size seven-seat SUV flagship, according to a report from US publication Car and Driver. The magazine says the Lexus LQ styling will be inspired by the LF-1 Limitless concept from 2018 (pictured) and will slot between the popular Lexus RX soft-roader and the Lexus LX heavy-duty four-wheel-drive based on the Toyota LandCruiser.

The world’s biggest lithium-ion battery, Tesla's Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, has received a capacity bump of around 50 per cent, courtesy of a major expansion project that promises to bring even more reliability to the state's grid. Electric carmaker Tesla and its partner Neoen, the French renewable energy provider that owns the reserve, have completed a project deploying more storage capacity at the site, which is located in Hornsdale, north of Jamestown, in South Australia.

With current market conditions putting a stranglehold on new car sales across all vehicle categories, brands have been pushed to sharpen their pencils in an attempt to lure buyers. Before the traditional wave of end-of-financial-year deals hits, a range of interim stimulus offers have hit the market as lures to prospective buyers. We’ve put a list of current market offers (shown in alphabetical order, by brand) below.

When we’re not creating it ourselves, the CarAdvice team spends a lot of time finding and consuming motoring content from all over the world. Here’s a handful of the photos, articles, videos or social media posts that most caught our eye last week. Some of them are brand new, others have been online for a while. Enjoy them – just not too much, okay?

In case you haven’t heard the story of how the Ford Mustang was born, here is a quick recap before we get into our list of the best examples of all time. The original Ford Mustang – named after the P-51 World War II fighter plane – was relatively affordable as it was based on the underpinnings of Ford’s sedan at the time. But its daring design and sharp $US2300 starting price saw sales take off as soon as it was unveiled at the New York Auto Show on 17 April 1964.