Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What does it take for a #Peugeot vehicle to earn the Lion Emblem? For Julie Sardin, Vehicle Synthesis Manager for the B-segment, the answer is simple: you test it. Completely. Relentlessly.
In this Lions Portrait episode, Julie takes us inside Belchamp, the Stellantis testing centre where Peugeot vehicles are put through conditions most drivers will never face but always expect their car to survive.
The site runs six endurance benches running up to one million cycles each, a ten-week chassis fatigue test, obstacle courses calibrated for everything from European speed bumps to Latin American road conditions, and a ford crossing alongside two rain booths for waterproofing validation. The mannequin clinic tests impact performance across the full range of human body types from a 1.50m, 45kg woman to a man weighing over 100kg.
Behind it all is a team of 150 – engineers, architects, acoustics and aerodynamics specialists, homologation experts – coordinated by Julie, whose job is to keep every project aligned, resolve the blockers and make the final decisions.
At Belchamp quality is not assumed. It is validated.
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#LionsPortrait #VehicleSynthesis #BehindTheScenes #PeugeotEngineering
What does it take for a #Peugeot vehicle to earn the Lion Emblem? For Julie Sardin, Vehicle Synthesis Manager for the B-segment, the answer is simple: you test it. Completely. Relentlessly.
In this Lions Portrait episode, Julie takes us inside Belchamp, the Stellantis testing centre where Peugeot vehicles are put through conditions most drivers will never face but always expect their car to survive.
The site runs six endurance benches running up to one million cycles each, a ten-week chassis fatigue test, obstacle courses calibrated for everything from European speed bumps to Latin American road conditions, and a ford crossing alongside two rain booths for waterproofing validation. The mannequin clinic tests impact performance across the full range of human body types from a 1.50m, 45kg woman to a man weighing over 100kg.
Behind it all is a team of 150 – engineers, architects, acoustics and aerodynamics specialists, homologation experts – coordinated by Julie, whose job is to keep every project aligned, resolve the blockers and make the final decisions.
At Belchamp quality is not assumed. It is validated.
Subscribe for more from the Peugeot Lions Portrait series.
#LionsPortrait #VehicleSynthesis #BehindTheScenes #PeugeotEngineering
