Question:  MG EX-E was inspired by this sports car that was manufactured from 1975 to when

Context articles: MG J-type
MG M-type
MG 14/40
MG Midget
MG P-type
MG ZS SUV
MG EX-E
Ferrari 308 GTB/GTS
MG 14/28
MG Cars

The MG J-type is a sports car that was produced by MG from 1932 to 1934.
 This 2-door sports car used an updated version of the overhead camshaft, crossflow engine, used in the 1928 Morris Minor and Wolseley 10 and previously fitted in the MG M-type Midget of 1929 to 1932, driving the rear wheels through a four-speed non-synchromesh gearbox.
 The chassis was from the D-Type with suspension by half-elliptic springs and Hartford friction shock absorbers all round with rigid front and rear axles.
 The car had a wheelbase of 86 inches (2184 mm) and a track of 42 inches (1067 mm).
 Most cars were open two-seaters, but a closed salonette version of the J1 was also made, and some chassis were supplied to external coachbuilders.
 The open cars can be distinguished from the M type by having cut-away tops to the doors.
The MG M-type (also known as the MG Midget) is a sports car that was produced by the MG Cars from April 1929 to 1932.
 It was sometimes referred to as the 8/33.
 Launched at the 1928 London Motor Show when the sales of the larger MG saloons was faltering because of the economic climate, the small car brought MG ownership to a new sector of the market and probably saved the company.
 Early cars were made in the Cowley factory, but from 1930 production had transferred to Abingdon.
The MG 14/40 or MG 14/40 Mark IV is a sports car that was made by MG and launched in 1927.
 It was based on the contemporary Morris Oxford flatnose and was a development of the MG 14/28 and was built at Edmund Road, Cowley, Oxford where MG had moved in September 1927.
 During production it became the first model to carry an MG Octagon badge on its radiator, the previous cars had retained a Morris Oxford badge.
The MG Midget is a small two-seater sports car that was produced by MG from 1961 to 1979.
 It revived a name that had been used on earlier models such as the MG M-type, MG D-type, MG J-type and MG T-type.
The MG P-type is a sports car that was produced by MG from 1934 to 1936.
 This 2-door sports car used an updated version of the overhead camshaft, crossflow engine, used in the 1928 Morris Minor and Wolseley 10 and previously fitted in the J-type Midget of 1932 to 1934, driving the rear wheels through a four-speed non-synchromesh gearbox.
 The chassis was a strengthened and slightly longer version of that used in the J-type with suspension by half-elliptic springs all round with rigid front and rear axles.
 Steering was initially by a Marles Weller and later a Bishop Cam system.
 The two-seat car had a wheelbase of 87 inches (2210 mm) and a track of 42 inches (1067 mm).
 Most cars were open two seaters, but streamlined Airline coupé bodies were also made.
 The P-type was also available as a four-seater, a car that suffered from a lack of power and poor rear ground clearance.
 Whereas J, K and L-type MGs differentiated between versions with the use of numbers, with 1 indicating a four-seater (i.e., J1) and 2 a two-seater (i.e., J2), this was not the case with the P-type (or its six-cylinder sister, the N-type Magnette), and there is no clue to the type in the name.
The MG ZS also known as the MG XS in the United Kingdom, is a sports utility vehicle (SUV) produced by the Chinese owned, British automotive marque MG Motor.
 The MG ZS is the second SUV produced by MG Motor, after the larger MG GS, which was launched in April 2015.
 The MG ZS notably uses the name of the earlier MG ZS, which was based on the Rover 45, and was produced by MG Motor's predecessors MG Rover from 2001 to 2005.
The MG EX-E is a concept car that was produced by MG and presented at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1985.
 The EX-E was a mid-engined sportscar inspired by the Ferrari 308 and designed by Roy Axe and Gerry McGovern.
 The car's drivetrain and chassis were derived from the mid-engined MG Metro 6R4 rally car.
 The EX-E concept car did not lead to a production version, although Gerry McGovern did go on to style the later, smaller MG F sportscar.
The Ferrari 308 GTB berlinetta and targa topped 308 GTS are V8 mid-engined, 2-seater sports cars manufactured by the Italian company Ferrari from 1975 to 1985.
 The 308 replaced the Dino 246 GT and GTS in 1975 and was updated as the 328 in 1985.
 The similar 208 GTB and GTS were equipped with a smaller initially naturally aspirated, later turbocharged 2-litre engine, and sold mostly in Italy.
The MG 14/28 Super Sports is a sports car that was launched in 1924.
 It was the second line of cars produced by W R Morris's MG company.
 The first line of cars were 1548cc Morris Oxfords fitted with a two-seater body supplied by Charles Raworth & Sons of Oxford.
 They were built at first in small premises in Alfred Lane, Oxford moving in 1925 to a larger site shared with Morris Motors Limited radiator factory at Bainton Road, Oxford.
 The badge on the front of the car still read Morris Oxford, MG badges were not to appear on the car's nose until 1928 but they did appear below the Morris badge on the honeycomb of the last of the 14-28 cars which had flat nose radiators.
MG, the initials of Morris Garages, is an English automotive marque registered by the now defunct MG Car Company Limited, a British sports car manufacturer begun in the 1920s as a sales promotion sideline within W R Morris's Oxford city retail sales and service business by the business's manager, Cecil Kimber.
 Best known for its two-seat open sports cars, MG also produced saloons and coupés. Kimber was an employee of William Morris.