I can not imagine a car manufacturer spending the time and money on R&D to develop, construct, market and sell ANY type of car that doesn't allow such important functions like throttle / break linkage to move freely and in an un-obstructive fashion.
You'd be surprised... the ofna's I had all did the same thing... the tank was just far enough away from the pipe to not melt(not that I could start the dam things in the first place) but testing the radio as made me come to that conclusion... also broken servo gears because it's quite some load that the tank puts on the servo...