IMPCO Awarded Extension to Supply United Parcel Service With Complete Turnkey Engine Packages

 Project Calls for IMPCO's Engine Systems Division to Supply Over $15 Million
      In New Engine Packages for Replacement of Obsolete Engines to UPS

    STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich., Jan. 31 IMPCO Technologies, Inc.
announced today that the company's Engine Systems Division
(IES) in Sterling Heights, Michigan is continuing its plans to provide the
United Parcel Service with complete, turnkey engines packages aimed at
replacing obsolete engines in many of the company's delivery vehicles.
    Mr. Brad Garner, Director and General Manager of the Engine Systems
Division said, "We are very pleased with the working relationship we have
developed with UPS over the past two years.  IMPCO's complete low-emission
engine conversion package allows UPS to replace the costly and inefficient
obsolete engine, thereby extending the useful life of an otherwise sound
delivery vehicle.  Our engine package includes the engine, fuel system;
cooling system, exhaust system and related hardware.  The UPS order is yet
another example of the value our customers' see in our capability to provide
complete low-emission engine solutions for their specific requirements."
    IMPCO is the leading resource of advanced fuel storage, fuel metering and
electronic control systems for fuel cells, microturbines and internal
combustion engines enabling them to operate using economical, clean-burning
fuels such as hydrogen, propane, natural gas, sewer-gas and methanol.  IMPCO
designs each system to optimize efficiency and performance while reducing
emission to the lowest-levels.  IMPCO supplies systems to original equipment
manufacturers in the automotive, industrial, materials handling and power
generation industries. We support the global aftermarket through a network of
more than 400 Distributors and Service Parts Organizations.

    Headquartered in Cerritos, California, IMPCO has 17 offices / facilities
worldwide including:  North America, Pacific Rim and South America.  It
operates in the Netherlands, France, Germany and the United Kingdom as
IMPCO-BERU Technologies, B.V.  IMPCO can be found at http://www.impco.ws

    Certain matters discussed in this press release contain forward-looking
information that involves risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ materially from current trends.  These include, among other
things, the growth of the alternative fuels and fuel cells market, OEM
automotive product sales, competition, the Company's ability to design and
market viable advanced fuel metering, fuel storage or electronic control
products, the Company's ability to meet OEM specifications and other such
risks as cited in the Company's 2000 annual report on Form 10-K and other
documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

    For further information please contact:  investor relations,
Dale Rasmussen, 206-575-1594, or media relations, James S. Mitchell,
562-860-6666, ext. 116, both of IMPCO Technologies, Inc.