Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT3NPoSx5B4
They started before the sun even thought about rising. Microfibers out, fuel topped, tire pressures checked in the dim glow of carpark lights. Engines fired one by one, cold starts echoing off concrete like a secret handshake across the island. This was how enthusiasts prepared. Not rushed. Not casual. With intention. With pride. By the time they rolled into Rounding Cafe, every car was ready, every driver locked in. And us, being the contracted BEINSports’ OffTheGrid “local crew” was there to capture the spark of it all.
BEINsport segment link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8q8YMoIncI
It was not one scene. It was all of them. For example, a white Gallardo superleggera humming with Italian impatience. GTRs rumbling like trouble about to happen. FD2R and S2000s with VTEC hearts waiting to climb into the sky. BMW M machines flexing boosted straight-six power. GTIs with hot hatch energy. A clean 180SX holding that unmistakable silhouette. And then the classics. A Lotus Europa kept feather-light and immaculate. An MG TD and an Austin Healey maintained with the kind of care only real devotion can justify. No widebodies or swaps. Just pure machines preserved as they were meant to be.
The convoy rolled out. Southwards, cameras on rig rolling, engines syncing. A moving timeline of speed and stories cutting through quickly buzzing Saturday roads. The turbo cars whistled. The NAs sang sharp. The classics rumbled with elegance. Traffic shifted. Pedestrians turned. For a moment, the island itself felt like part of the shoot.
Alkaff Mansion waited in full white against the greenery, the perfect stage. One by one, they lined up, new first then old, European beside Japanese, stock beside tuned. In formation, they looked less like a group of cars and more like a community. Proof that despite limits and laws and a city built for efficiency, passion here still finds its way. OffTheGrid came to film an episode, but they left with something better. A glimpse into our beloved car culture that refuses to fade.
Savage No Refrain 