WhistlinDiesel Tortures a $100K Corvette Z06 With a Firehose, Crane and 9,000-Pound HorseMotorBiscuitAlex HarringtonSat, September 26, 2026 at 2:09 PM UTCAdd us on GoogleWhistlinDiesel Tortures a $100K Corvette Z06 With a Firehose, Crane and 9,000-Pound HorseCody Detwiler, better known to his nearly 11 million YouTube subscribers as WhistlinDiesel, has built a career on a simple premise: buy something expensive, then find out exactly how far it can be pushed before it stops working. His latest target is a 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 convertible, a $100,000 mid-engine performance car with a screaming V8 that GM never designed to survive a firehose, a construction crew, or a 9,000-pound horse.Yep, that's exactly what it sounds like, and it's the first video on what he says will be a full series.The Nashville-based creator has never been shy about wrecking machines other people treat like family heirlooms, and this Z06 gets no special treatment just because it starts life as one of the fastest cars GM builds. What follows is a stunt reel that I fail to describe over text. You're just going to have to watch yourself.A Driveway Turned Into an Obstacle CourseThe test begins with a simple goal: get down his own driveway without incident. That doesn't happen. Men in fatigues, one gripping an RPG and another a rifle, flag him down and demand he turn around because he's entered a "restricted area." He guns it past them instead, then plows through a closed metal farm gate and a "Road Closed" sign like neither exists.AdvertisementAdvertisementFrom there it only gets stranger. A staged car fire and a fire truck greet him next, and when he stops to look, a firefighter blasts the open cabin with a hose. A fake road crew shows up soon after, and the Corvette smashes through wooden barricades hard enough to tear off the passenger mirror, gets boxed in by a Ford dump truck, has a "STOP" sign worker leap onto its hood, and picks up a smear of black asphalt tar on the rear quarter panel courtesy of another worker. The gauntlet ends with the car ramming through a tower of stacked aluminum cans and spinning donuts in a field, mirror gone, tar streaked down the side, grass packed into the wheel wells.Once the smoke clears, Detwiler parks the Z06 next to a red Chevy Silverado 1500 and makes the deadpan case that the Corvette was, in fact, designed after the pickup truck. He points out that the Silverado runs a turbocharged four-cylinder against the Corvette's V8, calls the Z06's rear trunk a "3500 dually pickup truck bed," and grabs the custom hitch he's welded to the back end, only to yank his hand away because it sits directly above the exhaust. When the two vehicles actually race down his driveway, the Silverado's brakes cook and start smoking almost immediately, while the Corvette shrugs it off. Detwiler admits, somewhat grudgingly, that Chevy built a really quick truck.Jack Stands, Fake Dyno Sheets, and a Car Wash With No RoofBack in the shop, the crew hoists the Corvette onto four jack stands to see how fast it'll go without actually moving. After the car initially refuses to shift past first gear, Detwiler looks up a workaround, holding the traction control button while cruising the engine at 2,000 to 3,000 rpm for over a minute to disable the electronic safety net. Once that's done, the Z06 climbs through the gears in midair, flames snap from the exhaust, and the speedometer reportedly settles around 248 to 250 mph. Chevrolet officially caps the Z06 with the Z07 package closer to 195 mph.The payoff to a promised horsepower check turns out to be a bit. Detwiler announces he's finally tracked down the "dyno sheets," then pulls dinosaur-print bedsheets and a matching notebook out of the car instead of anything resembling a printout.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe abuse keeps moving outdoors from there. With a storm rolling in, Detwiler drops the top and heads out on I-65 toward Nashville, betting that enough speed will keep the rain out of the cabin. Instead he rolls straight into stopped highway traffic during a full downpour, soaking the open interior while a crew member sits exposed in the passenger seat. To rinse the tar off afterward, he drives the topless Corvette through an automatic car wash, and both he and his cameraman take the full treatment from high-pressure jets, foam, spinning brushes, and industrial dryers with nothing over their heads. The key fob later turns up sitting in a puddle inside the cupholder, though the electronics keep running regardless.Then comes the crane. Detwiler hooks a strap to the rear hitch and lifts the entire car vertically by its tail end, "to hang it out to dry," and he and a crew member try climbing the underside like a jungle gym. When it's lowered back down, the front splitter plows into the dirt and the crane hook itself smacks the roof frame before Detwiler grabs on and gets hoisted into the air for good measure.Bare Hands Against Fiberglass"If I were the owner of this car and I just bought it from the dealership, I'm gonna have so many questions about its durability," he says. "Logically, if I can break anything on this car with my bare hands quickly, it's not a quality product."He snaps the driver's mirror housing and glass off by hand, then climbs the side of the car and stands his full weight on the leftover mount, which holds. He complains about the laggy electronic door buttons and the triple honk the car gives when the key's left inside, then slams the door 30 times with a friend without denting anything. Kicking it backward past its hinge stop finally cracks the fiberglass fender. The hood snaps both hinges and gets kicked completely off. Repeated slamming and a jump on the rear engine hatch shatters the glass back there too. Inside, the rearview mirror, both sun visors, the center speaker grille, interior trim, and the leather wrap on the drive-mode dial all come off in his hands.The Frame-Bending FinaleThe last act forces the Z06 into towing duty. Detwiler hitches up a horse trailer and drives it hard across a bumpy pasture, launching the spare tire out entirely before jackknifing the trailer straight into the car's rear bumper. His crew notices the aluminum rear frame starting to sag. Undeterred, he tows the rig to a farm marked on-screen as Enumclaw, Washington, and loads a roughly 9,000-pound Clydesdale draft horse into the trailer, watching the Corvette's back end drop toward the pavement. A title card eventually admits the horse testing had to stop because the frame was bending in half.AdvertisementAdvertisementDetwiler also finally explains the shattered windshield seen in the intro: a flashback shows his friend Nick jumping onto the glass mid-drive on the way to get cheeseburgers.None of this tells you anything Chevrolet's engineers didn't already know about fiberglass fenders or aluminum subframes. What it does confirm is that Detwiler's channel isn't interested in whether a car is good. It's interested in how long a good car can survive him, and on this particular Z06, the answer was somewhere around a bent frame and a 9,000-pound horse.