Question: What  large family car produced by by the German automaker Volkswagen, is the middle of two other cars one being  small family car marketed worldwide across seven generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates ?
Context: The Mercedes-Benz E-Class is a range of executive cars manufactured by German automaker Mercedes-Benz in various engine and body configurations produced since 1993, marketed worldwide across five generations. The Alfa Romeo Giulietta (Type 940) is a small family car produced by the Italian automaker Alfa Romeo.  Giulietta production started towards the end of 2009 and was introduced at the March 2010 Geneva Motor Show. <ref name="italiaspeed.com/2009/cars"> </ref> In a viability plan forwarded to the US Government in February 2009, Chrysler (a partner of Alfa Romeo parent company Fiat) reported that the 147 replacement would come to market as the Milano and that it could be built in the USA.  However, as of early 2010 Fiat was instead planning to concentrate on bringing larger models to the US, such as the Giulia.  The Giulietta came in second place in the 2011 European Car of the Year awards.  Between 2010 and 2017 over 350,000 Giuliettas were built. The Volkswagen Phaeton (   ) ("Typ" 3D) is a full-size (F-segment in Europe) luxury sedan/saloon manufactured by German automaker Volkswagen, described by Volkswagen as their "premium class" vehicle.  Introduced at the 2002 Geneva Motor Show, the Phaeton was marketed worldwide.  Sales in North America ended in 2006.  Sales globally ended in 2016. The Citroën C5 is a large family car produced by the French manufacturer Citroën since March 2001, and now in its second generation.  The C5 replaced the Citroën Xantia, in the large family car class.  It is not the first Citroën with "Cx" naming nomenclature, as it was used by it's ancestors, the C4 and C6 from 1930.  The third generation is expected to be released in 2018. The Opel Ascona was a large family car (D-segment in Europe) produced by the German automaker Opel from 1970 to 1988.  It was produced in three separate generations from 1970 to 1988, beginning with rear-wheel-drive and ending up as a front-wheel drive J-car derivative.  In motorsport, the Ascona 400 rally car driven by Walter Röhrl won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in the 1982 season. The IZh 2125 "Kombi" (Russian: ИЖ-2125 Комби, short for "combination") is a compact car produced by the Soviet car manufacturer IZh from 1973 to 1997.  It was based on an Izhevsk-modified Moskvitch 412, with the first prototype released in 1972 as a small family car.  It was considered to be the first Soviet hatchback (released about a decade before the well-known Lada Samara), though the car actually possesses a station wagon body wherein the "D" pillar has its own support and does not gain from weight reduction (which would position the model more in the liftback family).  In Russian literature the car is referred to as liftback.  For the same reason, the car was given the "Kombi" nickname, which in a way alludes to the Combi coupé (the word "kombi" itself meaning "station wagon" in German and Polish, while in Russian a station wagon is called "universal"). The Lancia Ardea was a small family car produced Italian car manufacturer Lancia between 1939 and 1953.  Its unusually short bonnet reportedly contained the smallest V4 engine ever commercialized in a small family car The Volkswagen Jetta (   ) is a compact car/small family car produced by the German manufacturer Volkswagen since 1979.  Positioned to fill a sedan niche above the firm's Golf hatchback offering, it has been marketed over six generations variously as the Atlantic, Fox, Vento, Bora, City Jetta, Jetta City, GLI, Jetta, Clasico, Voyage, and Sagitar. The Volkswagen Golf (   ) is a small family car produced by the German manufacturer Volkswagen since 1974, marketed worldwide across seven generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates – such as the Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and Canada (Mk1 and Mk5), and as the Volkswagen Caribe in Mexico (Mk1). The Volkswagen Passat (   ) is a large family car produced by the German automaker Volkswagen since 1973, through eight design generations.  It is positioned between the Volkswagen Golf (Jetta) and the Volkswagen Phaeton in the current Volkswagen line-up and its derivatives have been badged variously as the Dasher, Santana, Quantum, Magotan, Corsar and Carat.  The successive generations of the Passat carry the Volkswagen internal designations B1, B2, etc. which originally ran concurrently with those of the Audi 80 and A4 with which the Passat has shared its engineering platform at certain model generations, although this link has now been severed.
Answer: Volkswagen Passat