Orlando Bloom’s first big automotive splurge was a classic Porsche—a black 911S from 1973. The actor had paid his dues, attending art and drama school in London, going out for auditions, and tooling around town in a forest-green Volkswagen Golf GT he’d bought for 160 pounds sterling. But by his mid-20s, he’d found success with major roles in the original Lord of the Rings film trilogy and decided he wanted to reward himself. Also, the VW had run into some trouble—or, more pointedly, trouble had run into it. “It was parked, and I came out to it, and somebody had just driven down the whole side of it,” he tells Robb Report while meeting with us in a private room at the exclusive Zero Bond club in Manhattan’s NoHo neighborhood. When he got behind the wheel of the vintage 911, the Porsche philosophy immediately spoke to him; the belief that..
