What I mean by "wooden accelerator pedal" is the unusually hard pedal and the angle of the pedal to get the right amount of throttle, either don't press hard enough and it stalls or a little too much . Just different from your normal local cars. The fact you can't hear the engine doesn't help. Is there an adjustment for the pedal angle? No handbrake in the console? Need three legs to drive it and on the wrong side of the road too!