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

Inside the 1930s BMW were producing a amount of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a demand from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were powered by a 750 cc area valve engine, which was predicated on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 device. This OHV engine unit later became the basis for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were fitted with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road gear ratios through which all and invert gears functioned. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most floors. Additional motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its own competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both broadly 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 upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually creating a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also decided that the production of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 systems, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly broken by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 products were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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