IMPCO Expands Its Distribution Network in Mexico

             - Announces It Has Signed an Agreement With Toolmex
                Mexico's Leading Automotive Parts Distributor

    CERRITOS, Calif., April 20 /PRNewswire Interactive News Release/ -- IMPCO
Technologies, Inc. the World's leading source of advanced
alternative fuel systems technology and components for internal combustion
engines, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with
Toolmex to enhance the company's broad coverage.
    Mr. Dennis Hartman, Vice President and general Manager of the Gaseous Fuel
Products Division of IMPCO, said, "Toolmex will assist in expanding IMPCO's
distribution in the Southern regions of Mexico as well as within Mexico City.
Toolmex is a major supplier of emission repair parts to over 400 service and
repair centers.  The addition of Toolmex to IMPCO's distribution network will
expand IMPCO's business to repair and service shops and increase its
replacement part business."
    "The addition of Toolmex expands our distribution channel to include the
vehicle aftermarket service and parts purchaser which, when combined with
Toolmex's aggressive plans to offer alternative fuel conversion technology,
will result in a potent new avenue for IMPCO in Mexico," Mr. Hartman noted.

    IMPCO is the World's leading source of advanced alternative fuel systems
technology and components for internal combustion engines.  IMPCO products
enable these engines to function using environmentally friendly gaseous fuels
such as propane, natural gas and biogas.  IMPCO products optimize efficiency
and performance while reducing emission to the lowest-levels.  IMPCO is a
major supplier to original equipment manufacturers in the automotive,
materials handling industrial and power generation industries.  IMPCO supports
its global aftermarket through a network of more than 400 Distributors and
Service Parts Organizations.   Through IMPCO's wholly owned subsidiary,
Quantum Technologies, Inc. the company participates in the emerging fuel cell
market by supplying enablement technologies and products in fuel storage, fuel
metering and delivery, electronic controls and system integration. Information
on Quantum may be found at our URL: http://www.qtww.com

    World headquarters are located in Cerritos, California.  IMPCO has key
offices and facilities worldwide including: North America, Central America,
South America and the Pacific Rim.  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 more information, please contact:

    Investors Relations: Dale Rasmussen, Investor Relations, (206) 575-1594

    Media: James S. Mitchell, (562) 860-6666 Ext. 116

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