In the United States, the Chevy Volt remains a bit of a sore spot with General Motors, between the lower-than-planned sales and the political bashing. Yet in Europe, the car has been nothing but a minor sensation, winning European Car of the Year and getting a dose of coolness from this stunt by Ian Cook of Popbangcolour to paint a Volt portrait using nothing but remote-controlled toy Chevy Camaros. The process looks messy, but the outcome as shown below impresses.

After taking our own stab at guessing what Steve Jobs' dream of a "iCar" might have produced had he lived, Morphyne.com sent us this much more skillful render of modern Apple cues combined with the stance of Jobs' preferred ride, the Mercedes SL. Auto enthusiasts may scoff, but it's been a few decades since anyone camped out at a dealership waiting for a new model.

Flower shows are to Britain what the Westminster Kennel Club is to Yanks, and so I'd never question the skill or dedication it took to create this gold-medal winning display featuring a life-size replica of a Williams Formula 1 car -- complete with pit crew and checkered parking spot -- out of shrubs and flowers. It's not very fast, but it can claim negative carbon emissions.

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

Cribbing style lines from Aston Martin has only made the 2013 Ford Fusion one of the more anticipated new cars of the year. This shot of the Ford Racing NASCAR entry in its first 2o13 livery colors shows that British looks and southern-fried racing go together like fish and chips. The revamp of NASCAR's Sprint Cup cars for 2013 may be one of the best things for American car enthusiasts in years.

Long before Charlie Sheen made it a catchword, "Winning," starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, was a movie released in theaters on this date -- May 22, 1969. While a great racing flick in its own right -- featuring real footage from two Indy 500s -- "Winning" is often overshadowed by Newman's other movie from 1969: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Check out the official movie trailer after the jump:

Patrice Toulze's photo of a stunning Jaguar E-Type coupe came from the Motoramic pool on Flickr. If you have a picture to share with us, please add it to the Motoramic group, or send us a message via Twitter or Facebook.

We were wrong. We were all wrong. All of us typing seagulls on the Interwebs whomever made fun of someone taking a power-up to their personal status by wrapping a car in shiny gold vinyl like a Studio 54 dancer were just misbegotten. Because this Mercedes CLS isn't some tuner's weekly paycheck, but an official product of the Mercedes-Benz company, the one that invented the automobile, created to haul stars around the Cannes film festival. I feel so schooled.

We've mentioned Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima's plans to tackle this year's Pikes Peak climb in a custom-built electric racer, and today Tajima revealed his ride in Japan, this carbon-fiber bodied runner powered by a yet-to-be-disclosed electric combo. Too bad it's going up a mountain, because it'd look right at home patrolling Gotham.