Kiskitrains ČSD 372 and DR 230

Never heard of Superbastard, nor Turbobastard. Only bastard, being it either original class 372 or modified 371 for higher speed...

Class 163 was named Peršing long time ago, in their early times, when they had many flaws and they used to malfunction very often. Pershing were american rockets, which were fast but only for short range. And class 163 were the same - they had a fast start due to thyristor pulse regulation and perfect adhesion control, but due to malfunctions they used to run only for short distatnes until some fault came up and loco had to stop. Many times they didn´t even make it into their destination, and another loco had to go for them and save the train. Of course, all flaws were corrected in the next years and they became backbones of former ČSD, later ČD and ZSSK.