Well more expensive if you compare them against the cheapest AK. But if you compare like-for-like (eg a nicely built, milled receiver AK) they are quite competitive. I think TGI are selling their last D-techniks for $690. And correct - the outline, from a distance does resemble an AK but they are completely different inside. Lighter and slimmer than an AK (even a stamped receiver variant), sensibly located safety, bolt-hold-open, lightweight aluminium magazines (for $13 a pop), chromed barrel, and really beautifully put together and finished.Aren't the vz58's more expensive?... What's the price range for them? If I remember they look like the AK, but internally they are more like the German WWII STG44... or am I not remembering correctly?
It's been sometime ago since I heard of them...
Century also make a vz2008 which I hear some negative things about, but are a couple of hundred dollars cheaper.