BMW exhibited the R32 to the public for the first time


Friday 28th September 1923

BMW exhibited the R32 to the public for the first time. It had a 500 cc air-cooled horizontally-opposed engine, a feature that would resonate among their various models for decades to come. The major innovation was the use of a driveshaft instead of a chain to drive the rear wheel. To this day the driveshaft and boxer engine are still used on BMW motorcycles.


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