I find that incredibly hard to believe unless you've modded your wife's minivan's engine.
No mods.
The Pacifica's 9 speed slushbox is programmed to take off in 2nd or 3rd gear most of the time.
It's a minivan, don't forget. I can only think of one instance where it did find 1st gear off the line, so you have to use the knob, which I dislike and start in Low and then pop it back into Drive. That will lop off somewhere between a quarter and a half a second if you're lucky.
If you turn
off traction control, you might even
slow your 0-60 roll because it will spin the tires, so for best results, start in L and leave the TC on.
The knob, I'm sure a lot of people think it's neat because some Euro sedans adopted it but I really wish they'd have left a shifter, even though it's not really mechanically connected to anything.
A side note about the Pentastar engine.
In stock Chrysler trim with normally aspirated FI, it's putting out about 280-290 HP if I remember correctly.
Maserati is using a three liter version of the same Pentastar and gifting it with two turbos and getting 435 HP out of it.
Not kidding, if you pop the hood on a Maserati Ghibli, the valve covers will say Maserati, but it's a Chrysler Pentastar V6.
It's a very impressive piece of machinery, certainly for an American vehicle.
I think the official ET for 0-60 is either 7.5 or 7.3 but I've clocked it at 7.1 after spinning the tires three different times and getting very disappointing 7.8 and 8+ efforts. I really hate traction control and all the other modern nanny-tech but it turns out I'm a slow learner.