What is the name of the actor who plays the Volkswagon salesman in the
series of ads that have been running for about a year now? He's a
skinny guy with brown hair.

Hello aldenmar,

I believe the actor you are looking for is Johnny Sneed. You can view
more television appearances and films including him at the Internet
Movie Database (IMDB) :

Johnny Sneed
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810964/

You can also see others confirming this on the message board at the
website listed above (IMDB)

Messages about the actor in VW Commercials
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810964/board/nest/8114940

Here is the information that lead me to search for more information about him :

"currently a series of five Volkswagon commercials (he's the VW car salesman)...."
http://www.reactactors.com/pages/435285/page435285.html

I hope this helps! To assist with this answer, I used Google to search for :

actor commercials vw salesman
://www.google.com/search?q=actor+commercials+vw+salesman

Thanks for the great question!
SgtCory

Thanks a lot for the help!

Somebody asked this question last year, and it has been bugging me ever since. 

http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=371511

Great job, SgtCory! I'm glad someone was able to solve this mystery!