I made a document a while ago for this kind of cost-comparison
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For the record, I had a Subaru outback before the ram (back when the outback was the equivalent of the forester of today), it was the perfect car for basically everything, I car-camped/backpacked/road tripped often. It had great MPGs... until one put something outside of the shell. As soon as I loaded up the canoe or motorbike on trailer, that mpg dropped to lower than ram levels.
As long as your not towing anything, it really is a perfect vehicle.
As a secondary vehicle, especially for just going to be dedicated for commuting, then its overkill. For commuting, the base 5door sedan would be fine. Depending on how often you have snowy weather maybe a Nissan Leaf would work for the finer non-winter months too- be free from worrying about gas for the daily commute when it hits $7/gal this summer.
That said, take a look at the sheet that I made... change the inputs for your specific case. In my case, riding a bike is perfect for a commute, I can get about half the year in on a bicycle and the rest is driving due to weather, but I also have a very short commute by comparison so a second motored vehicle for me just doesn't make sense.
Longer pushes, I'd go for a motorbike, specifically the Honda Navi, because its really cheap, fun (to ride any bike really) and really good on the mpgs. (assuming your not getting a bike for any other reason than commuting, otherwise... can always get something better)
I'm not sure what the OTD price on the Navi would go for, atm its 1.8k msrp for the bike, I'm only guessing it to be about $2500 after fees. Even with my really low commute, it would only take me personally 4 years to break even on the Navi. If one commutes 50 miles/day 260days/year, break even would be only 6 months.