Along those same lines, here's a little video I made of loading my bike into my Prius. I find it much easier rear wheel first, because when I'm holding the handlebars, I don't have the front end flopping all over the place without any way to control it. It steers right in. I have occasionally put a second bike on top of a blanket as nybiker says, but that would involve a second person lifting it from one of the passenger doors, you can't just roll it in. It's still easier rear wheel first though IMO, because you can feed the rear wheel to the second person with one hand on the down tube and one hand on a fork tube, and still control the fork flopping.
No help on the rack though, sorry, I had a Yakima roof rack decades ago and that's all I know.
(Also, the drop bars are pretty necessary to loading a bike this way in a car as shallow as the Prius. I do have to take the front wheel off my more-or-less flat bar hybrid on the rare occasion I put it in the car.)
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