I got mine couple weeks ago, the body in my kit is no warped at all. This kit is a completely different tooling from the regular R8 kit that was released 3-4 years ago. that kit had a V8, this ones got the V10.
from what I understand Round 2 now owns all the old AMT/MPC/SMP and Polar Lights tools. but I'm assuming they will still be producing the kits in the old RC2 factories. sounds like Tomy has no interest in the plastic model car market. but i'm happy to see they sold the tools, and didn't destroy them.
The big reason why Tomy bought RC2 is because they want to bring Tomica cars back into the USA. they also wanted Johnny Lightning and Thomas the Tank engine.