I use to have one of these cars, a 92 Geo Storm. One of the biggest pieces of JUNK you'd ever want to own. It was my first brand new car I bought when I was 20. So to the person who commented "I bet those dumbasses never head of a shovel. It might have been more useful", I can say, no, a shovel would definitely not be more useful with this car. Anytime the snow would start to fall, I would be all over the place with mine. Just a dusting on the road? Forget driving the Storm. I learned very early that first winter how to effectively use the parking brake for every time I wanted to turn onto another road, into a parking lot, whatever. If I attempted to turn anywhere with the steering, the car would just slide straight. It was horrible. Well, actually it was more alot of fun at the young age of 20. I wish they would force everyone to drive a Geo Storm through one winter before allowing anyone to get a license. If you can drive it in the winter, you can drive anything.
I got mine stuck similar to the situation in the video. If those kids were a bit smarter, with how many of them there were, they could have just picked the thing up and moved it out of the snow. My girlfriend and I did this one time. It is so light, we didn't pick it up, but lifted it off the suspension enough that the front end was able to slide out onto the road. Then we did the back end. Three guys could easily have picked it up one end at a time and moved it out of the snow.
On a good note, with my Pirelli P500 summer tires, there wasn't a bend anywhere out on the road that I couldn't take at 100 mph. The thing was so small and so light with the grippy Pirelli's it was a blast to fling into any bend. Back in my stupid days, that car probably saw 120 mph more often than any other speed. Had alot of fun with it even though it was a piece of junk.