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

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

Preproduction types of the R75 were driven by way of a 750 cc part valve engine, which was predicated on the R71 engine unit. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 unit. This OHV engine motor later became 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 connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were built in 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 areas. 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 widely utilized 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 after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they arranged that the make 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 goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production before Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly broken by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 models were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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