Motorcar Parts of America, Inc. to Present at the Roth Capital Partners 2007 New York Conference on September 5, 2007

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23, 2007 -- Motorcar Parts of America, Inc. ("MPA") announced today that its Chairman, President and CEO, Selwyn Joffe and CFO, Mervyn McCulloch, will present at the upcoming Roth Capital Partners 2007 New York Conference.

The Roth Capital Partners 2007 New York Conference is a two-day event featuring presentations from over 230 small and microcap growth companies across a broad spectrum of sectors, such as technology, healthcare, financial services and consumer products.

  Date:           Wednesday, September 5, 2007
  Time:           2:30 p.m. Eastern Time
  Venue:          The Westin New York at Times Square
  Live webcast:   http://www.motorcarparts.com/

Interested parties and institutional investors may register for the conference by visiting the conference website at http://www.rothconference.com/ or by calling Roth Capital Partners at (800) 678-9147.

About MPA

Motorcar Parts of America, Inc. is a leading remanufacturer of replacement alternators and starters for imported and domestic cars and light trucks in the United States and Canada. MPA has facilities in the United States in Torrance, California, and Nashville, Tennessee, as well as in Mexico, Singapore and Malaysia. MPA's websites are located at http://www.motorcarparts.com/ and http://www.quality-built.com/.

Disclosure Regarding Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements with respect to our future performance that involve risks and uncertainties. Various factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in such statements. These factors include, but are not limited to: concentration of sales to certain customers, changes in our relationship with any of our customers, including the increasing customer pressure for lower prices and more favorable payment and other terms, our ability to renew the contract with our largest customer that is scheduled to expire in August 2008 and the terms of any such renewal, the increasing demands on our working capital, including the significant strain on working capital associated with large core inventory purchases from customers of the type we have increasingly made, our ability to obtain any additional financing we may seek or require, our ability to achieve positive cash flows from operations, potential future changes in our previously reported results as a result of the identification and correction of errors in our accounting policies or procedures, the material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting or the SEC's review of our previously filed public reports, lower revenues than anticipated from new and existing contracts, our failure to meet the financial covenants or the other obligations set forth in our bank credit agreement and the bank's refusal to waive any such defaults, any meaningful difference between projected production needs and ultimate sales to our customers, increases in interest rates, changes in the financial condition of any of our major customers, the impact of high gasoline prices, the potential for changes in consumer spending, consumer preferences and general economic conditions, increased competition in the automotive parts industry, including increased competition from Chinese manufacturers, difficulty in obtaining cores and component parts or increases in the costs of those parts, political or economic instability in any of the foreign countries where we conduct operations, unforeseen increases in operating costs and other factors discussed herein and in the Company's filings with the SEC.