Ghost in the Machinery

This is the first in a three-manga storyline dealing with a tank that gets 200 mpg. The tank is in a building that is due to be blown up the next day when Nancy and the girls go looking for it. They fall into a hole and are rescued by a guy, but soon Nancy is almost squashed by a huge tire rolling down a set of stairs at her.

Nancy has to deal with whoever is going after her in the building, and in taking a very crash course in how to drive a tank out of an exploding building. The tank uses some kind of very strong magnets which made me think of the Philadelphia Experiment.

The main problem that arises is not with this particular part of the series, but how something very important is not really followed up. The idea was clear that the tank got 200 mpg. Now, if a tank could do that, then the same principle applied to ordinary cars would probably boost their miles per gallon to at least that much if not a whole lot more than that, but that concept is not followed up at all. It doesn't even really get mentioned.

Instead, the concept is used to make a race car in a later part of the story. It's odd that something that could make such a huge impact on the environment (using much less oil, for one thing) is not really given any attention.

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