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TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) is expected to inform a huge modify in quarterly profits on weekday impact by tanking Asian automobile income and a concern yen, lightness its harmful danger to the loss-making export business.

Domestic competition Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) is seen pain a modify in October-December profits and Honda Motor Co (7267.T) has already posted weaker results for the period. But the fall at Toyota is ordered to be the deepest given its heavier coefficient in the lessening Asian market.

Toyota exported more than half of its Japan-made vehicles terminal year, making a expiration on many of them with the note substantially beneath the peak 90 yearning that President Akio Toyoda has said was necessary to ready Japan's manufacturing facet competitive.

Analysts feature Toyota's disproportionately bounteous Asian operations -- it has 17 assembly plants across the group -- module rest the large inspire on its qualifying earnings power.

Toyota, which stayed aweigh of General Motors Co (GM.N) as the world's large maker by a thinner edge terminal year, shapely 43 proportionality of its vehicles in Nihon terminal year, compared with 27-28 proportionality for Honda and Nissan.

A recovery in automobile obligation in the United States, Toyota's large market, has driven a recent feat in its shares, but more analysts wager the stock as a stop or delude than a buy, making them more bullish on Nissan and Honda.

Some feature Toyota could further suffer from the lingering effects of terminal year's recall crisis, especially as consumers hit more automobile models to opt from with the treatment of Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) and Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) in the United States.

Wide-ranging estimates from figure analysts surveyed by Reuters place Toyota's October-December operative acquire at an average 70.6 1000000000 yearning ($859.1 million), down 63 proportionality from 189.1 1000000000 yearning in the previous year.

Profits prefabricated in China are not counted on the operative take at Toyota, which reports under U.S. business rules.

That would alter the nine-month tally to 394 1000000000 yen, above Toyota's full-year forecast of 380 1000000000 yen, making an ascending writing likely, analysts said.

For the assemblage to March 31, consensus forecasts wait an operative acquire of 489 1000000000 yen, according to a poll of 23 analysts by composer Reuters I/B/E/S.

Although Japan's automobile mart is lessening with the declining accumulation and urbanization, Toyota's founding kinsfolk chief, Toyoda, has vowed to physique a peak 3 meg vehicles a assemblage at bag to ready the practice of manufacturing alive.

But a note rate of around 82 yearning has prefabricated its domestic operations unprofitable, and Toyota has revilement its parent-only operative earnings forecast twice in a row this business year, to a expiration of 490 1000000000 yearning from the initial 340 1000000000 yen.

Nissan, Japan's No.2 automaker, is ordered to inform a smaller fall in third-quarter profits on Wednesday helped by industry-beating income in the United States, China and Europe.

Last week, Honda reportable a 29 proportionality fall in three-month operative profit, but vex analysts' estimate and lifted its outlook to above consensus forecasts.

Toyota's shares hit risen 19 proportionality in the time threesome months, meliorate than Tokyo's important TOPIX index (.TOPX), which grew 15 percent. Honda and Nissan gained 27 proportionality and 20 percent, respectively, in the aforementioned period.

(Editing by Anshuman Daga) ($1 = 82.17 Yen)

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