Ford's Mikko Hirvonen won the Rally of Jordan to retake the world championship lead from Citroen's Sebastien Loeb.
The 27-year-old Finn beat Loeb's Spanish team-mate Dani Sordo by one minute 15.7 seconds, with his first win of the season moving him five points clear at the top of the standings after five events.
Frenchman Loeb, the four times world champion who was seeking his third win in a row, failed to score a point after a bizarre head-on collision in Saturday's second leg.
Hirvonen has 35 points to Loeb's 30, with Subaru's Australian Chris Atkinson on 28 after taking the final podium placing in Jordan's first appearance on the world championship stage.
The Irish World Rally Team climbed two places, leaving the Irish duo of Shaun Gallagher and Paul Kiely placed second overall.
Gallagher won stage 18 on the last day of rallying as he battled temperatures in excess of 40 degrees and gearbox problems.
'That last stage was so nerve racking; I had no split times on Dani and no idea how fast he was going,' Hirvonen said.
'I'm really happy to win and take the ten points - it makes up for my result in Argentina. Sebastien is still a big threat though. He was very fast here, so we need to find some more speed for the next events.'
Sordo had led at the start of the final leg, a disadvantage on the loose gravel roads.
Latvala regained the lead but lost it again on the 18th stage when his suspension broke and ended the rally in seventh place. Sordo then spun early in the final stage but hung on for second.
'I tried my best and pushed as hard as possible today,' said Sordo. 'But the gravel was the worst of the event, and my wheels were just spinning in some places.
'We lost time with a spin at the start of the last stage, and then all we could do was drive to the finish. But I'm very happy to get eight championship points.'
Atkinson finished almost five minutes behind Hirvonen but the podium was his fourth in five rallies.
'It's another good points finish, it's good for the team and keep us near the front in the championship,' he said.
'But we want to be winning, not just on the podium.'
Norway's Henning Solberg was fourth, with Britain's Matthew Wilson fifth and Argentine Federico Villagra sixth. Italian Gigi Galli took the final point in eighth place.
