EXHIBIT 23.1
                                    KPMG LLP
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                         INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT



To the Board of Directors and Stockholders
Standard Motor Products, Inc.:


We consent to incorporation  by reference in the Registration  statement on Form
S-8 of Standard Motor Products,  Inc., dated April 20, 2001, of our report dated
February 23, 2001, except as to the second and third paragraphs of note 7, which
are as of March  14,  2001,  relating  to the  consolidated  balance  sheets  of
Standard Motor Products, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2000 and 1999,
and the related  consolidated  statements of earnings,  changes in stockholders'
equity,  and cash flows and related schedules for each of the years in the three
year period ended  December 31, 2000,  which reports  appear in the December 31,
2000 annual report on Form 10-K of Standard Motor Products, Inc.


/s/ KPMG LLP



New York, New York
April 20, 2001