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The duPont Registry has listed the best cars in eleven categories, and taking the cake for 2009 Car of the Year is the Bugatti Veyron Gran Sport. Other winners, like the ZR1 for Bang for the Buck and Continental Flying Spur Speed for Performance Sedan, make up the usual murderers’ row of marques and models. What isn’t usual is that in just one year, the total price of all the cars jumped 200% to $4.5 million because of a certain Bug and a Koenigsegg, and that the total horsepower climbed 57%, from 4,276 to 6,723.

Oddly, though, duPont says that the era of hi-po supercars may have peaked, and things could be going green – but neither the list nor the facts on the ground bear it out. Of the eleven cars, only the Tesla and the Ronn Motors Scorpion could be considered green, and one of them doesn’t even exist yet. As for the rest, we don’t know what the opposite of green is, but none of the nine other cars are expected to have less horsepower in their follow-up guises. Which means there’s still time to get some thrills in, as long as you’ve got at least $110,000 to spend…

When we were brainstorming ideas for Earth Day posts, we thought about featuring the ten most exciting green cars we wish we could buy today. It turns out that there are at least twice as many green rides on the horizon that we’d really like to have today, so the list has expanded. We’d like to note that this list is far from complete; the green sector of the automotive industry is growing in leaps and bounds.

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There you have it. Take a look at our list and, as always, feel free to share your own favorites in the comments.

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