National Press Release

FINDLAY, Ohio, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cooper Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE: CTB) will announce its 4th-quarter/year-end 2008 financial results before the market opens on Thursday, Feb. 26. Company management will discuss the financial results in a conference call beginning at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time that same day.

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    Individuals can access a webcast of the conference call at the investor
relations web page at www.coopertire.com or
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-
eventDetails&c=99422&eventID=2082578. (Due to length of URL, please cut and
paste into browser. Please note that the hyphen at the end of the first line
of the URL must be included for URL to link.)

Replay of the conference call will be available at the previously listed web addresses through Thursday, March 5. Questions concerning this conference call can be directed to the Investor Relations Department at (419) 427-4768 or by emailing cwschneekloth@coopertire.com.

About Cooper Tire & Rubber Company

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company is a global company that specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing and sales of passenger car, light truck, medium truck tires and subsidiaries that specialize in motorcycle and racing tires. With headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, Cooper Tire has manufacturing, sales, distribution, technical and design facilities within its family of companies located in 10 countries around the world. For more information, visit Cooper Tire's web site at: www.coopertire.com.

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