Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday reported a group net profit of 216.1 billion yen for the October-December quarter, up 93.9 percent from the same period a year earlier on brisk sales at home and abroad.

Japan's top automaker's group sales in the quarter rose 13.2 percent to 4.19 trillion yen.

Its consolidated pretax profits leaped 59 percent to 370.27 billion yen and its consolidated operation profits rose 23.3 percent to 379.44 billion yen.