We love my husband's Forester. It gets decent gas mileage despite being 4-wheel drive all the time (around 28 mpg, I think). We did buy Thule racks for the top, the kind where you take the front wheel off and can lock the fork to the rack. I'm nearly 5'6", and I can barely get my bike on and off the top. I know that one bike fits easily inside the back if you put the seats down (which is easy to do), but I'm not sure we've tried to put two in there. It's a great car, though. I don't like that ours is manual transmission--I'm a terrible stick-shift driver--but I can manage it, thanks to the anti-roll feature. It certainly drives like a car, rather than a truck.