Taken from their website:

"Yuasa has been significantly involved in the automotive industry selling Yuasa batteries and other well-known brands including Lucas, Tungstone, Crompton and Oldham throughout the UK and Europe. Yuasa being a global organisation, is now one of the world's leading suppliers of automotive batteries with OEM customers that include such well known names as; Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Ford, Chevrolet, Daimler, Chrysler, Peugeot, General Motors, Hyundai, Suzuki, Isuzu and Yamaha."

Japanese firm that began manufacturing batteries as part of a joint venture in the US in 1979.

Edited by Auristocrat on 21/09/2012 at 11:13

I know this company from motorbike batteries. Very impressed, last one i had lasted 11 years on a Honda CB600.

Most bikers you will talk to will rate their batteries highly

No experience of their car batteries, but no reason to doubt they should be just as good

Yuasa are very high quality - they often last well over a decade.

The OEM on my motorbike lasted ~3 years. The Yuasa lasted at least 7.

The only battery I can find which is not "sealed" and therefore top-up-able

Er, why would you want that? Just something else to have to check and maintain. The sealed ones are as reliable and last just as long, which is why the old style ones are so rare.

Get a decent sealed one and then forget about it until it dies sometime next decade.

They're all sealed now.

Get one online from www.batterymegastore.co.uk/.

Performance Batteries is another way in.

They're good and they're cheap. If a box of lead can be cheap in ripoff Britain. You'll save a tenner off the local parts factor who all seem to have adopted Halfords prices and get a 3 year guarantee.

No direct experience of Yuasa car batteries, but other types from Yuasa are superb. We do a fair bit of below ground work and need reliable and long life re-chargeable batteries for our light sources. We build our own as 'normal' commercial ones do not fit the bill. We always fit Yuasa batteries and have done for 15 years. Our workshop lads swear by them. No reason to suppose their other products are not equally good. Concrete