Toyota sold 1,537,371 new passenger cars in Japan in 2012, up 42.4% year on year. Total sales rose 40.9% to 1,692,228.

Car export rose 25.5% to 1,750,237 and total shipments were up 24% to 1,945,688 units.

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Production outside Japan was up 25.8% to 5,243,616 units while total global output rose 26.1% to 8,736,529.

Global sales rose 22.8% to 8,717,000 of which 7,025,000 (+19.2%) were outside Japan.

Including minicar and LCV maker Daihatsu and truckmaker Hino, worldwide group output was up 26.1% to 9,909,440 with 5,489,282 (+25.5%) built outside Japan.

Global sales rose 22.6% to 9,748 with 7,336,000 (+19%) outside Japan.

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