Manufacturer Profile | Wiki de The Undercut

The Manufacturer Profile is the dossier of a car maker: who it is, what it builds, what it has done in the PFS, how big a slice of its road-car sector it owns, and which teams currently run its engines. The same window doubles as the tyre-supplier profile, with a few labels swapped.

The world holds roughly 35 major makers. Only some of them are engine suppliers in the series — the rest are road-car companies you may never sign, and that is the point: the supplier list is a subset of a real industry, not a closed catalogue.

How to open it

World Data → Manufacturers — click any maker’s name.
Competition → Constructors tab — click a team’s Engine brand (or its Tires brand for the tyre variant).
PFS Series page — click an engine-supplier record holder.
Country Profile — click an engine supplier in the national list.

Esc or Back closes it. A name that is not in the career’s world pool has no page.

Identity panel

Logo, name in UPPERCASE, country flag and name, and a founding year.

The subtitle says what kind of brand this is:

“Engine Manufacturer · PFS” — a road-car maker currently supplying the series.
“Road-Car Manufacturer” — in the world, not in the series.
“Tyre Supplier · PFS” — the tyre variant.

Rows below the logo block (engine makers):

Row	Meaning
Category	Luxury (gold) / Sport (blue) / Mass Market (green)
Preferred architecture	The road-car engine layout this maker favours
Engine code	Its unique three-letter trigram (“Honda” → “HND”), used on part designations
Series status	`PFS engine supplier` in violet, or `Not in the PFS` in grey

A tyre supplier shows only Category: Racing Tyres and Series status: PFS tyre supplier.

Founding year is procedural but stable per name — a triangular distribution over 1885–1975 peaking near 1930, so pioneer-era marques are possible but rare and mid-century brands are the norm. It never changes and never needs storing.

Clicking the flag or the country name opens the country profile.

Category and architecture

Category is drawn Mass Market 11 : Sport 6 : Luxury 3 at career creation, and it constrains what the maker builds:

Category	Architectures (draw weights)
Luxury	V12 (45), V8 (30), V10 (25)
Sport	Inline-6 (40), V6 (40), V8 (20)
Mass Market	Inline-4 (50), V6 (30), Inline-3 (20)

Prestige panel

A label, a 0–100 score and a ten-segment bar, with the caption “Grows with PFS results — seasons, wins and titles.”

prestige = category base            (Luxury 30 / Sport 20 / Mass Market 10)
         + 2   per season in the PFS      (caps at +20  → 10 seasons)
         + 1.5 per GP win by a client     (caps at +30  → 20 wins)
         + 10  per constructors' title    (caps at +40  →  4 titles)

Labels: Legendary (80+), Prestigious (65+), Respected (50+), Established (35+), Modest (20+), Unknown below.

It is derived at display time, never stored, so it evolves with results without any save-schema change. A Luxury marque starts at 30 before it has ever raced; a Mass Market brand starts at 10 and has to earn everything.

This page shows the pure racing prestige. The number the Suppliers directory and the country profile display for the same brand is a blend: 0.65 × racing prestige + 0.35 × market standing, where market standing is (budget rating + size rating) / 20 × 100. A big, well-funded maker carries weight before it has won anything. If the two figures disagree, that is why.

PFS record panel

Row	Meaning
Seasons in the PFS	Distinct seasons in which a client team ran this brand
Grand Prix wins	Wins by client teams, including the live season
Constructors’ titles	Titles won by client teams

A maker that has never supplied a PFS team shows em-dashes and the line “This maker has never supplied a PFS team.”

How attribution works

Each team’s per-season history row carries the supplier that actually powered that season, so records stay with the brand that earned them. The running season is credited to each team’s current supplier, with its wins counted live from the season records — the history row is only written at the rollover, so without that pass the current year would be invisible on this page.

Only pre-0.5.1 history rows, which stored no supplier, fall back to the current one. Before that fix, a departing motorist’s whole record was handed to its replacement and the brand that earned it was zeroed.

Market panel

Engine makers only:

Row	Meaning
Sector	The maker’s category
Sector market share	Its share of its own category’s sector, as a percentage
Valuation	Company worth

Market share is stable per name: each brand gets a raw weight of exp(4.2 × u) with u a hash-derived uniform, then the sector’s weights are normalised. The exponential skew means a sector is dominated by a couple of giants (20–35 %), with a mid-field belly and a long tail of 1–3 % players, instead of being split near-evenly. Shares only move when the competitor pool itself changes.

Valuation is share × a per-sector base per point: Luxury $2.5 B, Sport $1.5 B, Mass Market $0.9 B. The stronger a brand’s grip on its own sector, the more it is worth — and a Luxury brand with 10 % of a small sector outvalues a Mass Market brand with 10 % of a big one.

A tyre supplier’s Market panel shows only Sector: PFS tyre suppliers — racing rubber has no road-car market here.

Sector prestige pie

The custom-drawn chart is not a market-share pie. Each slice is one maker’s share of the sector’s total prestige — how much of the category’s racing standing belongs to whom.

Slices start at 12 o’clock and run clockwise, one per brand, every brand drawn individually.
The displayed maker’s slice is violet, first, exploded (offset along its bisector) and outlined in dark violet so it is unmistakable.
Rivals get distinct colours from a 16-entry palette, then golden-angle-generated hues for very crowded sectors; hairlines separate adjacent slices.

The legend beside it aggregates where the pie does not: rivals under 3 %, or beyond nine listed rows, collapse into a single grey “Others (N brands)” line. The pie itself never aggregates.

For a tyre supplier, the “sector” is the PFS tyre-supplier pool (every tyre brand in the directory that is available or signed) rather than a road-car category.

Hovering the chart raises: “Sector prestige cake: each slice is a maker’s share of the sector’s total prestige (PFS record + sector base).”

Customer teams panel

Every active team currently running this brand, in grid order: team logo, team name (clickable → its team profile), and the label Engine customer / Tyre customer.

Empty state: “No PFS team currently runs this engine.”

This is the fastest way to see engine blocs on the grid — which rivals will move together when the supplier’s engine is re-rolled at the season boundary.

Season history panel

Year · Best team · Final position — the best constructors’ finish achieved by any team on this brand each season, newest first. Empty before the first rollover.

It reads the same per-season history rows as the record panel, so it inherits the same attribution rules.

How a maker relates to the suppliers you can sign

This is the important connective tissue, and it is easy to miss.

The PFS regulation only permits V8, V10 and V12. A maker whose preferred architecture is one of those is native: it enters the series with the engine it already builds. Every Luxury maker qualifies; a Sport maker qualifies only if it favours a V8.

A maker whose preferred architecture is a V6, Inline-6, Inline-4 or Inline-3 has no legal engine — but it can still register. It adapts a legal architecture: a stable per-name pick leaning V8 (70 % V8, 30 % V10 — the pragmatic route for a road-car engineer), and it pays a quality penalty on its engine roll for doing so.

The practical reading:

A Luxury maker on the supplier list is an engine you can trust. It is native by construction and carries the highest category prestige base.
A Mass Market supplier is almost certainly non-native, and its engine will roll worse for it. It may still be cheap, and cheap is a strategy.
The PFS badge on World Data → Manufacturers is derived, never stored. It means an engine supplier with this exact name is in your save’s supplier directory. If a maker you want is not badged, it is not signable — it is a road-car company.
Engine architecture, displacement and the resulting horsepower feed the physics directly, and the balance traits attached to an architecture are discovered like any other part trait. See Car Traits.

Advanced

Prestige here vs prestige in the supplier directory. This page is racing-only; the directory blends in market standing. Use this page to judge a maker’s record, the directory to judge how a negotiation will go.
The pie is a good rival radar. A sector where one violet slice dominates means your engine partner has no serious peer; a sector split evenly means the field’s engines are close.
Market share never moves from results. It is a function of the brand name and the competitor set, so a maker that wins ten titles gains prestige and valuation stays put. Valuation follows the market, prestige follows the track.
Engine trigrams are unique within a career and appear on part designations, so you can trace a component back to its maker.
Tyre prestige reuses the manufacturer formula on the Sport base — racing rubber is treated as a performance business.
collect_brand_records is shared with the PFS Series page’s engine hall of fame and the country profile’s engine table, so all three agree by construction.

Common mistakes

Reading the pie as market share. It is prestige share. Market share is a single row in the Market panel.
Assuming a badged Mass Market maker builds a good engine. Non-native architecture means a penalised quality roll every time its engine is re-rolled.
Comparing this prestige score to the number in the Suppliers app. Different formulas by design.
Expecting the record to include the current season’s title. Titles land at the rollover; only wins are counted live.
Assuming every world manufacturer can be signed. Only those with the PFS badge are in the supplier directory.
Trusting the season history for a brand that changed hands. Seasons before 0.5.1 in an old save fall back to the current supplier; newer seasons carry the truth.