Motoramic illustrationEven as he fought the cancer that would kill him, Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs was dreaming of new ideas for his company, from televisions to medical devices. A new interview with a close friend reveals one of the ideas Jobs kicked around but never got to -- designing his own automobile. Here's why the iCar simply wasn't meant to be.

Because there's nothing Bugatti does that's less than astonishing, here's the first test drive footage of its 1,200-hp Veyron Vitesse -- the roof-optional version of the Veyron Super Sport that's capable of 255 mph -- from the iPhone of one fortunate potential buyer. If you're not so intrigued by the preliminaries around the Paul Ricard Circuit in France, skip about 3 minuts in for the downing of the hammer and the chorus of 16 cylinder and four turbochargers in full song.

Out on the edges of car customizing lives a couple of artists whose trade includes using regular black Sharpie markers to create pieces of art. Chris Dunlop may be the best-known marker in the pack, and this is his latest work, a Sharpie-styled 1999 Ford Mustang GT that took about 50 hours of freehand drawing to finish. 

This is the Motoramic Dash, a daily roundup of the most interesting news in the automotive world.

No carbuilder has done a better job of luring American shoppers to their products over the past few years than Hyundai and Kia. After nearly leaving the United States in previous decades, the Korean duo now outsells Nissan, and seems capable of selling every car they can build or import. Yet a key annual study by a Wall Street analyst says that boom may be ending.

Fifty-four years ago on this date -- May 18, 1958 -- Lotus made its Formula One debut at the Monaco Grand Prix.

According to the Urban Dictionary:

'Bel Air,' when used as a verb, means to copy a story that another person has posted to the Internet and replace the last half with the lyrics to "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."

In 1957, Bel Air meant something very different; the Bel Air was the premium version of that American classic, the '57 Chevy. The 210, on the other hand (missing three gold chevrons from its front fender and a pair of cylinders from its engine) was a more affordable model. Every weekday, we feature a stunning photo from Flickr, like the above high dynamic range (HDR) image of an astonishingly yellow 210 hardtop by Jacobo Munguia (honored previously for his HDR image of a lime-green 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1). If you have an amazing automotive image of your own to share with us, please add it to Motoramic's Flickr group. Oh, and be sure to read the rest of Urban Dictionary's definition of Bel Air:

It only took 17 years after General Motors killed the last rear-wheel-drive Chevrolet Impala sedan for GM to decide that maybe a few of its more devoted shoppers wanted such a car (not counting the new, police-only Caprice.) This blurry prototype shows what Chevy will race in NASCAR next year, and hints at what it will offer as the 2014 Chevrolet SS sedan late in 2013. What's one more year at this point anyway?

Five years ago, all-terrain vehicle racer Travis Tollett suffered a spill that broke his spinal cord and left him a quadriplegic. That hasn't kept the Oklahoman from racing, and this July he plans to become the first quadriplegic driver to tackle one of the world's toughest courses -- the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.