A brand-new ChevroletC8 Corvette Z06 is supposed to arrive like a coronation. It’s the perfect American sports car, the one with the exotic layout, the exotic noise, and the kind of price tag that should buy at least a little dignity. Instead, this one rolled straight into a public hazing. Within a day of delivery, the fresh-from-the-dealer Z06 got mocked for its design, nitpicked over its cabin, bounced around off-road, used as a country-club prop, and then coughed up what looked like an actual problem before the real durability test had even started. That’s a rough first 24 hours for Chevy's track-bred hero. Chevy’s Flagship Supercar Immediately Became The Joke WhistlinDiesel YouTubeIt all begins with the kind of build-up you’d expect for something rare and expensive: paperwork, a covered reveal, and plenty of talk about a “very expensive new car” with zero miles. Once the cover comes off, the mood swerves almost immediately into sarcasm. The car, a C8 Corvette Z06, is described as the “craziest Corvette ever made” and the flagship, but the commentary around it is pure comedy roast. The exterior gets compared to everything from a Ferrari to an Aventador to, for reasons we can't seem to deconstruct, a pickup truck.It sadly doesn't stop there. The rear cargo area gets called bulky, the interior gets mocked for its unusual layout and wall of buttons, and the stock exhaust gets dismissed hard enough that an aftermarket valved titanium system is already waiting to go on before the car has really done anything. After the swap, the new setup does win some approval, especially once the valves open, but the underlying bit never changes: this Z06 is being treated like a $100,000 target with cupholders.Needless to say, the C8 Z06 is a seriously capable machine in the real world, but internet Car Culture doesn’t care about reputation if there’s fresh material sitting on camera. Here, the Corvette gets dragged through every old stereotype at once. It’s a golf-club-mobile, a retirement-mobile, a supercar with Silverado energy. Ouch. The Real Trouble Started Before The Durability Test Even Did WhistlinDiesel YouTubeIt's grim viewing for any true Chevrolet Corvette fan, but it starts showing signs of actual drama before the promised durability abuse even begins. After some light off-road messing around, the car appears to chew up its tires almost immediately, with them claiming they were already shredded within the first 24 hours. This Is Just The Beginning, Sadly WhistlinDiesel YouTubeThen, while trying to use the front trunk during the golf-club segment, the hood latch seems to stop cooperating. The area is described as getting extremely hot, the frunk won’t properly open, and the car suddenly refuses to shift into drive, flashing “conditions not correct for shift.” Hardly something you'd want to see from six-figure Performance Cars, especially one that hasn’t even reached its officially scheduled punishment yet.If the follow-up durability test is half as chaotic as this introduction, Chevy’s flagship may have already found its real purpose online. It's a strange time to be alive. This is content with a flat-plane crank. No one asked for it, but here we are.Source: WhistlinDiesel (YouTube).