Michael, check out the Subaru line for the ideal bird-mobile. You would have
full-time all-wheel drive in any model from compact (sub-compact?) Impreza
sedan throught the small and large wagons to the new sport-utility model. I
sold my much-loved Mazda 626 last spring to buy the Impreza Outback Sport
wagon, just for the all-wheel drive. It's a much smaller car than the legacy
wagon, but to me is the ideal bird-mobile. (I'm a small-car person.) It's a
4-passenger car with plenty of gear space and a roof rack. It goes down
steep, rutted, muddy canyon roads with numerous stream crossings with no
problem!

Cathy Mohns
Mill Creek WA
catsafari at aol.com