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with enough speed and also proper tires, topgear demonstrated you can drive on water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oeJjzdlTuI

Uhh...you're talking about 500+ horsepower motors pegged against their rev limiter...this is a human being running.

snowmobiles do this all the time in the North, simply because it's quicker to skim than to go around:

If you run out of fuel it's a bit of a problem though, Lake Michigan & lake Huron have quite a few snowmobiles at the bottom...

The town I grew up in has annual snowmobile races on the lake in July.