If the spinoff really wants to differentiate itself, the way it uses cars would be the most obvious way.
Otherwise, the plan may be to make the spinoff as much like the main series as possible, just with fewer characters.
One certainly expects we’ll see some cool cars driven very fast in the movie, but perhaps less often.
Hobbs and Shaw is the first movie outside of the main Fast and Furious franchise and it makes one wonder just what the new film will have in common with the series, and in what ways it may make a point to be different.