Rob Croson
Elio Addict
I haven't looked myself at the tests, so this is second hand. Others have posted here that at least one of the tests requires a dummy buckled into the front passenger seat. If there's no front passenger seat, you can't get a valid result from that test. From there, I suppose it depends on how the test specs are written. You could end up with anything from a lower overall rating, to a zero star or something, to an "unable to test".25% offset, frontal, and side impact tests can be run on the Elio. I didn't see where or why you have to have a side by side configuration to run them. Perhaps they run the tests for driver position and rear occupant for the Elio. They could surely determine the impact forces.