Maybe we'll just chalk the quick movement up to good story telling

Though if you read some of the toy bio's, some 'bots are pretty light on their feet. And Megs quote about TM2 Cheetor 'someone is out for a little midnight stroll... at Mach 2'.

I'm not sure that second image is southern Africa and Madagascar. There appears to be another large land mass out in the water in what should be the empty Indian Ocean