Finding 10000 people in the US who can afford a $61000 car is not going to be a problem. But this is more about PR then profit for GM. They are still trying to get over killing the electrical car and this is not the way to do it.

The fact that they are only building a small number of this car was always an indication to me that this is just a poor tempt to do the EV thing and it was predictable that they are going to leave a large number of unhappy people out there because there are going to be a lot more buyers then there are cars.

I am planning to go the full EV route with the Leaf but I am afraid that the same thing is going to happen there. Every Nissan dealer is guaranteed to sell out of whatever it's allocation is going to be and I would be very surprised if I will be able to find any dealer who is willing to sell near MSRP. Has anyone been checking out Nissan dealers yet?

I think the Volt is a great idea. But the dealers are going to destroy all that.
Look at the New Camaro for history of the dealer greed.
GM designed a great car (for a change).
Instead of selling a great car at a great price, the dealers chose to add $5 - $10,000 to the MSRP or let them sit on the lot for 30 days. I saw used Camaros for $2k over MSRP on the lot. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Who expects to even pay MSRP these days?
I usually start at invoice and work from there.
I bought my last car for $75 under invoice. Do some homework and get a deal.
If GM considers this greed by there dealers expectable, I won't be buying another Chevy any time soon.
Now Chysler has also been doing this on the new barracuda. That too is a nice car.
With this dealer greed, the buyers will go elsewhere and the manufacturers will fail once again. Nobody is going to pay to save them again.
The manufacturers need to have a serious chat with there dealers!
Making a profit is expected. Being greedy is not.

After more than 6 weeks of attempting contacts and inquiries TRYING to get a confirmed order on a Chevy Volt, I finally found a responsive and non-exploitive dealer. Yesterday (5 Aug.) I did a price outline for the Volt on Edmunds.com and then at the end of that process, their website lists some possible REGIONAL dealers to have my specific request reviewed. I noted FAIRFIELD CHEVROLET on that list, a dealer enough distance from Sacramento that I had not thought of contacting them, so ....

Within about 3 hours I had a call from Danny Austin, their internet representative who reviewed my options list and about an hour later he called to confirm selling me my specific vehicle for MSRP. I now have my deposit paid ($1000) and an order number and by Monday or so I should have the full "production schedule" for the delivery of the first customer car (besides the 2 they will be keeping as demonstrators) they will receive. Fairfield Chevrolet is about half-way between SF and Sacramento, and Danny says their internet office will even DELIVER cars to out of town customers !

I never was able to get a final price quote from ANY Sacramento area Chevy dealer and one dealer simply told me "All Volts will come in without prior sales confirmations" and implicitly ..be subject to onsite markups ....Another dealer suggested that "market adjustments" would be placed on the Volt model somewhere around $3500.

Fairfield Chevrolet was a breath of fresh air in a very stifling sales atmosphere.