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

Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a volume of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a request from the German Military.

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

The third side-car wheel was influenced with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fixed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios through which all and invert gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. Additional 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 generally used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time 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 after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually setting up a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (chosen the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they decided that the production of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 units, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 each year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production before Eisenach stock was so terribly harmed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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