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On this week's episode of CarAdvice, Trent Nikolic and Paul Maric talk about Victoria's new police cars, chat electric car pricing and the Toyota Prius, and spend some time behind the wheel of the roaring Lexus GS F. In car news, the Volkswagen Passat has been handed its badge and gun for service on the Victorian police force, replacing decades of Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores.

The Renault Kangoo ZE Concept was unveiled overnight, and is said to preview the company's next-generation small van. Renault is especially keen to point out the concept's body is "designed like that of a passenger car", and features prominent wheel arches, sculpted flanks and a rounded shoulder line.

Mercedes-AMG boss Tobias Moers has confirmed a next-generation SL is in the works, and it'll be more focused on dynamics than the big, heavy current model. The boss confirmed the "historic DNA of the SL" will be a focus during development in an interview with Autocar. "It's far sportier," Moers said of the car, which will remain roadster-only. This is the first time AMG has headed up SL development.

A video of a Tesla Model S spontaneously catching fire in a Shanghai parking garage has started doing the rounds online, prompting the company to investigate. The video recorded at 8.15pm Sunday night (local time) was, according to Weibo users, shot in a car park in Shanghai. A follow-up video reportedly shows three vehicles destroyed. It's not apparent from the video why the Model S began smoking and caught fire.

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 articles, videos and 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? Who doesn't love Godzilla? A fascinating gallery MORE: Car News