A 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine. It was developed at Bayerische Motoren Werke in Munich as an improvement of the American licence for the Pratt & Whitney Hornet engine. Its technical documentation was prepared in the metric system. It features a single-speed centrifugal supercharger and an anti-interference system. BMW-132 engines were used in, among others, the Ju 52/3m, Henschel Hs 126, Henschel Hs 123, and Focke Wulf Fw 200 aircraft.
| Configuration | 8-cylinder inverted V (90°) |
| Cooling | air |
| Propeller reduction | 0.655 |
| Displacement | 27.7 l |
| Weight | 430 kg |
| Maximum power | 725 hp at 2050 rpm |
| Nominal power | 550 hp at 1930 rpm |
