Cooper-Standard Automotive Appoints Villaire Associate
General Counsel

Novi, Mich., September 5, 2007 - Cooper-Standard Automotive has appointed Iwona Niec Villaire associate general counsel. Villaire will focus on securities, corporate governance and compliance and commercial transactions. In addition, she will oversee the legal affairs of the Company's Fluid Systems Division. Villaire will report to Timothy W. Hefferon, vice president, general counsel & secretary for Cooper-Standard Automotive.

Most recently, Villaire was senior counsel at Federal-Mogul Corporation where her responsibilities included corporate governance, securities, international transactions, restructuring and bankruptcy, regulatory compliance and employment law. Prior to Federal Mogul, she was an associate at Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss.

Villaire attended Wayne State University where she earned her J.D., a B.S. in Psychology and an M.A. in Educational Psychology.

About Cooper-Standard Automotive
Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc., headquartered in Novi, Mich., specializes in the manufacture and marketing of systems and components for the global automotive industry. Its primary businesses include Body and Chassis Systems, consisting of sealing, noise, vibration, and harshness control parts, and Fluid Handling Systems, consisting of subsystems and components that direct, control, measure, and transport fluids and vapors throughout a vehicle. Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. employs more than 19,000 across 80 facilities in 19 countries. For more information, visit the company's Web site at: www.cooperstandard.com.

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