Would you really want to post lower ratings or the "Unable to test"?
I didn't mean to imply that EM would advertise the result. (And, honestly, I can't see how you could reasonably interpret my post to mean that I was saying they should.) I was theorizing what the results the testing agency would report if the vehicle were not able to perform one of the required tests. There was that econobox car in Europe last year that got a 0-star rating because of one test that couldn't be done properly, or something. The rules of the test were such that if a required test coudn't be performed, or produce a valid result, that the overall rating would be zero. Without that test it would have gotten something like three stars out of five. Still not the greatest, but better than zero.
So that's what I was trying to say. That yes, you may be able to physically crash the Elio into the barrier. But if you can't have someone buckled into in the front passenger seat, then you can't meet the intent of the test specifications. If that happens, even if the car survives with flying colors, the actual result you may be assigned by the testing agency depends on how the test parameters are written. And *that* result could be anything.