I have never seem the show but a reader emailed me to let me know about it. In the show a Opera Red 2012 Passat SE gets plenty of screen time as the main focus of the car. To watch the full epsiode head over to ABC.com or follow the link below:
ABC’s The Middle: Hecking it up
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I've watched the show a few times, and saw a teaser for this one while watching another show, and spotted the VW, so I recorded it.. I think they represented VW pretty well.. They did have a few errors.. The SE doesn't have remote start, and it did have the sunroof and Nav, but still had the 17" wheels, and no fog lights.. It was a 2.5 so maybe thats how they come… The TDI with Sunroof and Nav does have the 18" wheels and fog lights..
I like the show a lot, but the episode kinda seems like a bit of a commercial whenever the car was on screen, but this was obvious product placement. Still, I just chuckled how they showed off all the features like one of the kinds playing with the navigation system, or how quiet it was you could take a nap in it, and the trunk space, etc. Plenty of shots where you got a good look at the car. Plus instead of just saying "the car" they made sure to mention Passat by name a number of times.