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This is 'standard operationg procedure' by your salesman, the dealership, and GM - it has gone on for decades. Your salesman, who works on commission, will tell you what he thinks you want to hear - to make the sale, so he gets money. The dealership wants to sell cars - to make money - so they encourage their salesman to do whatever needs to be done (or at least they don't discourage their salesman from doing whatever needs to be done), including telling the customer what the customer wants to hear, to sell cars. And the dealerships do so with little regard to whether they can order the car today, tomorrow, next week, or three weeks from now. GM wants to sell cars - to make money - so they don't particularly care that your salesman told you what you wanted to hear. And GM isn't really checking up on the dealerships with regard to these sorts of things - so it happens... Basically, nobody cares because nobody is really harmed in the process - the salesman, the dealership, and GM want to sell cars - and through this process, they do. You want to buy the vehicle you're ordering, so if it it takes a couple extra weeks to get it, they figure "so what" - and in the end, when you get the vehicle, so will you.
In 1981, I ordered a brand new, fully-loaded, Pontiac Trans Am - dark blue metallic, gold decaling, gold wheels, camel tan velour interior. The salesman told me "four to six weeks". It was twelve weeks - and when I arrived at the dealership on that clear, blue, sunny August day to pick it up - and there it sat, by itself, on the hill, out in front of the dealership, gleaming in the sun - I couldn't have cared less that it took three months to show up...
Enjoy your car.
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