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

Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a amount of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a need from the German Military.

Preproduction types of the R75 were powered by a 750 cc aspect valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine motor. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 product. This OHV engine motor later became the basis for following 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 trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding equipped with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road items ratios by which all and reverse gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. A few other motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its own rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both extensively employed by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period of analysis 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 (specified the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they decided that the make of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 devices, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 each year.

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

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