Following a slight rise between the year 2000 and the year 2001, the graphic shows a decreasing trend in VW's net profit over the period from the year 2001 to the year 2004. 
VW's net profit shows a decrease of nearly 80 percent, ranges from 3.57 to 0.86 billion dollars over the period from the year 2001 to the year 2004 and shows the largest drop of about 1.71 billion dollars between the year 2002 and the year 2003.