Hmmm.... I have no response to that. ;~)
Honestly, when it actually comes right down to it, I’ll probably try to find a Honda Civic or something like that...small four-door car with just enough of a back seat that I can transport Cisco when I need to.
The others are cool...but you pay for cool. I don’t *need* another big vehicle, either, which is what the Element would be (though actually it’s more tall than really big - still, it’s not gonna have little-car gas mileage). And although I’ve been in enough Subarus and known enough Subaru owners to know the AWD thing is actually very nifty, even just on wet roads...I don’t *have* to have it. I’d just like to have it, if I could find an outstanding deal.
But there’s still a little voice in my head that says, “you’ve driven a *mini-van* for over five years, for heaven’s sake - live a little!”