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The BMW R75 is a World War II-era motorcycle and sidecar combination produced by the German company BMW.

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a number of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a get from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were driven with a 750 cc aspect valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine motor. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 product. This OHV engine motor later proved to be the foundation for following post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was driven with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fitted with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road products ratios through which all and reverse gears worked well. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. A few other motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both extensively used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period of evaluation it became clear that the Z?ndapp was the superior machine. In August 1942 Z?ndapp and BMW, on the urging of the Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (designated the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also decided that the make of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 products, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 every year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach factory was so terribly damaged by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. An additional 98 systems were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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