Amerigon to Present at the Roth Capital Partners Conference in New York City

DEARBORN, Mich.--Aug. 25, 2005--Amerigon Inc. today announced that President and CEO Daniel R. Coker is scheduled to make an investor presentation at the Roth Capital Partners NY Conference on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time. The conference is being held Sept. 7-8 at the Westin Times Square in New York City.

A live webcast of the company's presentation will be available via a link provided at http://www.wsw.com/webcast/roth6/argn/. An archive will begin shortly after the presentation time and will be available for 30 days.

About the Roth Capital Partners Conference

The conference is being held to accommodate a growing number of investors and companies, and will feature presentations from more than 200 small- and micro-cap companies in industry sectors such as technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer goods and more.

About Amerigon

Amerigon designs, develops and markets its proprietary Climate Control Seat(TM) (CCS(TM)) products for sale to automotive and truck original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). CCS 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's subsidiary, BSST, is engaged in developing thermoelectric devices (TED) with more efficiency than currently available devices and has development contracts with several customers to expand the market for TED-based automotive and non-automotive products. Amerigon maintains sales and technical support centers in Los Angeles, Detroit, Japan, Germany and England.

Certain matters discussed in this release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may be different. Important factors that could cause the company's actual results to differ materially from its expectations in this release are risks that sales may not significantly increase, necessary additional financing may be unavailable, new competitors may arise and adverse conditions in the automotive industry may negatively affect its results. The liquidity and trading price of its common stock may be negatively affected by these and other factors. Please also refer to the Amerigon's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including but not limited to its Form 10-Q for the period ending June 30, 2005, and its Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 3, 20051, 2004.