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Without knowing exactly how rutted the roads are, I'd still be inclined to think a 4x4 is not necessary.
My folks live up a hilly rural country single lane road with ruts, and thought they'd need a rugged vehicle, and over the years have had Cherokee's (pertol-ridic fuel bills), and farmers favourites like the Diahatsu Fourtrak's and Suzuki Grand Vitara's, (bone shakers) but all the time they had regular cars too, which always got home. They now rave at the Skoda Yeti they have as being way better than all of them. And they don't even have the 4x4 version, which they do if you fancy added off-roadyness, and think they come in auto too, so I'd say something that would probably be fine.
And the seats go down and can fit bikes in the back, or you can take the back seats out entirely.