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EV Widebody Kits Are Now the Fastest-Growing Corner of the Bodykit Market
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EV Widebody Kits Are Now the Fastest-Growing Corner of the Bodykit Market

Larte Design's kit for the Tesla Model S and Avante Design's kit for the Porsche Taycan are leading a segment nobody expected five years ago.

Mitch HanchettFounder & EditorApril 28, 20264 min read

The global bodykit market crossed $3.8 billion in 2025 and is projected past $4.1 billion in 2026, driven in large part by a category that barely existed a few years ago: widebody kits built specifically for electric cars. Larte Design's Elizabeta kit for the Tesla Model S and Avante Design House's kit for the Porsche Taycan are cited as the segment's current leaders, part of what's described as the fastest-growing sub-segment in the entire bodykit market this year.

SUVs remain the biggest single category overall — accounting for 38% of all bodykit purchases, up from just 12% in 2018 — with the Mercedes G-Class W463A the single most popular platform globally, with more than 15 distinct kits available for it. But the EV growth curve is the more surprising story, since widebody culture built its entire aesthetic vocabulary around engines, exhaust notes, and combustion-era proportions.

The framing from builders in the space is that 2026 kits, EV or not, are increasingly designed for daily-driving practicality rather than pure show-car impact — real fitment, real durability, real long-term reliability, not just aggressive proportions for a photo. That a Tesla and a Taycan are now leading that same conversation says the widebody aesthetic has fully detached itself from what's under the hood — because there often isn't one anymore.

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Reporting based on Driven By Style.
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