Amerigon to Present at Roth Capital Partners Growth Stock Conference in Dana Point, California

DEARBORN, Mich., March 7 -- Amerigon Incorporated announced today that it is scheduled to make an investor presentation at the 15th Annual Roth Capital Partners Growth Stock Conference on Monday, March 17, 2003 at 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time. The conference to be held March 16-18, 2003 at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort and Spa in Dana Point, California, identifies emerging companies with significant, long-term growth prospects that fall below Wall Street's radar screen.

A live webcast of the Company's presentation at the Conference will be available via a link provided at http://www.twst.com/econf/mm/roth2/argn.html . An archive of the presentation will begin shortly after the presentation time and will be available for 10 days.

About Amerigon

Amerigon develops and markets its proprietary Climate Control Seat(TM) (CCS(TM)) products for automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). This product significantly enhances individual driver and passenger comfort in virtually all climatic conditions by providing cooling and heating to seat occupants, as desired, through an active thermoelectric-based temperature management system. Amerigon is engaged in developing other proprietary thermoelectric-based heating and cooling products for the automotive and other market applications. Amerigon maintains sales and technical support centers in Los Angeles, Detroit, Japan and Germany.

For further information, please contact: investors, Jill Bertotti of Allen & Caron Inc, +1-949-474-4300, jill@allencaron.com , for Amerigon Incorporated.