Why are American Racing Torq Thrust VN205 wheels so expensive?

American racing makes a bunch of variations of this classic wheel style including some in the 17”-18” range.

The cast aluminum VN215 in a 17x8 seems to hold a retail price around $180 which is pretty darned reasonable.

Meanwhile, the slightly different looking but also CAST aluminum VN205 in a similar size will run in the $600 range.

Of course, the VN205s seem to look a little better but 2.5x better? Not sure about that.

So what gives? Is anyone running modern sized Torq Thrust wheels? How did you pick yours?