That actually raises an interesting point.

Animated blurr was able to run back to Cybertron, but do we know how long it took him? In a way though, the animated series really pushed up the powers Transformers had into super hero territory. Magnus lightning hammer, Sentinels expanding shield etc etc. Which is kind of understandable when it started off as TF Heroes.

G1 Blurr though, hrm.... I always just saw him as being super fast, I mean there's quite a few Transformers that can travel faster than the speed of sound. Admittedly most of them are planes. I always felt he was his fastest in vehicle mode, and was surprised at the movie too.

Thing is though, if he did move that fast, him moving his arm would create mini sonic booms all the time!

As for the covert ops thing, well Animated Blurr was a covert ops guy. If I was to power up Blurr to X-men Quicksilver levels of speed, I'd place some restrictions, so he can only move that fast in robot mode for a limited time before the excess strain takes a toll on his body.
His vehicle mode is made for speed, so should be able to handle it no problems, so the restriction on robot mode would stop him from essentially being invincible.

I wonder what other TFs could be super powered-up into comic book style powers? Windecharger had magnetic hands, so could he be a TF Magneto? G1 Megatron has the ability to syphon powers from er, blackholes/space or something, so he could be considered super powered. IIRC most TFs with amazing powers were only to use them for a limited time before the power consumption/bodily stress caused them to have to stop.

Side note, I too used to just read the tech specs. I learnt what kinetic energy was from Runamuck's bio. Well, it made me look up the meaning of Kinetic, and has stuck with me ever since!