It's amazing, the places you can take a regular old car if you know what you're doing. Not saying any of those guys know what they're doing, though. In fact I've watched some of the videos of this recovery team before, and I'm amazed at how unprepared they are when they go on an operation. It is entertaining, though.
I have a front wheel drive minivan that used to be my wife's daily driver. It developed a few too many minorish problems, so we bought her another one to drive and dropped the registration on the old one. I figured I would park it on the back of the property as a parts car and maybe occasional field car, as long as it still ran. To get back there is a steep, rutted jeep trail. So I waited until the ground was nice and dry, then took a run at it. I had my F350 4x4 already up there, waiting to drag it from the farthest point it could reach.
It's a steep climb with pretty heavy ruts, followed by a sharp turn over a hump and through a gate, then a drive through the woods and another climb that is not as bad. I was shocked when I made it all the way back there without stopping!
Of course once the next rain came, it wouldn't even move a car length.
ETA: I see that Mazda is an "SUV." That makes it not so surprising that someone would take it on a jeep trail. She probably saw the TV commercials and believed they represented reality. A lot of people really believe their hatchback cars ("SUVs") (including those that carry the Jeep name) are the equal of a jeep. They're not.
BTW, I use lower case jeep intentionally. "Jeep" is a brand name; "jeep" is not. The original Willys jeep didn't say "Jeep" anywhere on it.
A new Jeep Renegade is a Jeep, but it's not even close to being a jeep.
